May your days be merry and bright, and may all your shells be red and white. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Everything. Cheers to doing the following over
Winter Solstice Mood
Winter Solstice is a few days away and it just has me in a kind of mood that’s hard to put a finger on it. It’s one full of juxtapositions: wanting to workout out non
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Grey Day Pick Me Ups
I think I do some sort of post like this each year during the next few months. Well, this year it might be a little more of a personal pep talk. Things are cold and
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Cheers to Nine Years
Nine years ago today, I sat, sweaty after a workout, underneath an air-conditioning vent in the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Diamond Head, spent $20 to buy the goldfishkiss.com URL, and wrote my first
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In A Fall Mood
Somehow it’s the first day of Fall, and honestly, it sure feels like it. It’s like a switch went off last week and the grey is starting to gradually roll into Seattle. I also had
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20 things I’m savoring these days
I’m trying to avoid the word busy at all cost these days. Yeah, I wish I could invent cloning in a humane and non-creepy way, therefore having myself be my own free assistant. But I
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Ma Plus Belle Aventure
I finally got the tattoo I’d wanted for our ten year wedding anniversary…a year and a half later. And completely changed what I wanted it to say at the last minute (but always knew I
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Happy Flower Child
You know the saying may you be happier than a bird with a french fry? Well, I kind of felt like that, but it was a mama sashaying around a sunflower field. We went to
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Dahlias with Friends
Flowers and friends. Talk about a therapeutic combo. An old friend of mine from grad school was in town and asked if I wanted to come over to her parents so our kiddos could play
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What’s This All About
I’m about to do something I’m horrible at but have needed to attempt to tackle for some time – nail down an accurate description of this blog. One could call it a manifesto of sorts
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Pictures by Levi
A perk of owning a waterproof camera is giving my 3.5-year-old son a chance to use it and investigate photography a bit. Hey, clear water or some sand, it’s an easy drop (if it happens).
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Playlist Kinda Mood
Couldn’t really figure out what to write or post, but I did put together a stellar playlist. (That I then listened to while putting together this little mood board.) I’d call it a summer playlist,
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Beauty in every darn day
Want to know a great little life hack? Look for beauty in every day. It’s there. Promise. Some days it’s easier to find than others. Way easier. Some days it just hits you in the
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20 quotes for Da Mamas
Motherhood. It’s one of the craziest things to sit down and actually try to talk about. I honestly have trouble writing about it, but I have no problem living it, loving it and learning from
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LA Nook
Well, I just had to cruise down to LA for a meeting, and I had fully intended on going out and about, hitting up some of my favorite places, and you know, reminiscing a bit.