Fighting the Vitamix
The house smelled like Christmas morning as the scent of Blueberry Cream Cheese French Toast Bake poured out of the oven. For the 23 years we’d been together, we usually only had this meal once a year on Christmas because it’s not exactly healthy, but lately, we’d...
Flip The Script
I know the exact moment I fell madly in love with the man who would become my husband. It was a busy Sunday morning at the Good Earth. He checked us in with the hostess, who gave him a pager and told him it would go off in about an hour. We decided to wait outside in...
The Swimming Pool
~An all-over-the-place rambling story about grief doing what grief does~ One extremely cold night in January this past winter, I was getting ready for bed when I heard a loud crash on the poolside of our house. It shook the whole house, rattling pictures on the walls,...
A Familiar Beast
She sat on a floral-patterned couch across from us, awkwardly staring at the wheels on my wheelchair. We had just given her a general overview of what we were hoping to accomplish in therapy and were waiting in a long, uncomfortable silence for her response. One...
When I’m not reading, writing, or dreaming up new healthy recipes to try, I’m either out in nature exploring new, accessible park trails with my husband and dogs or snuggled up by a fire in my cozy Minnesota home.
