new year

The end of the year brings a sense of closure to old memories, dreams, milestones, and sometimes loved ones. And it could bring sadness and longing for what was or could’ve been.  I go there too— wishing I could go back just one last time. Relive that moment, sp…

Every year I sit down to write my final post and it all comes together magically, like perfectly strung lights one after another even if it seems crazy to think an entire year has flown by.  But this year? It seems like time stopped last year at midnight when it str…

With every end of the year that comes, I hear the "New Year's Eve" song playing in my head. I sing Frank Sinatra's famous first few lines...  
 Start spreading the news 
I am leaving today 
I want to be a part of it
 New York, New York...  
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Well, here we are. It seems the end of the year arrives way too quickly, and I find myself sitting in front of my laptop again in my dining room, with a blank look.  I'm waiting for the right words to come to mind, that could somehow summarize all of the e…

I never quite know what to say when this time of year comes around. And yet when it does (all too quickly), it seems like there aren't enough words to describe just what an entire year can bring into someone's life.  For me, 2017 can be described as wav…

2016. Every year I sit in front of my laptop and every year I think how has another year gone by in a blink of an eye? I can't even put into words the amount of change, surprises, and beginnings that filled 2016. I traveled alone for the first time to a retreat …

I almost didn't write this post. I started writing thinking Wow, this year was a total fail.  Nothing amazing happened worthy of telling.  But then I started looking through my journal and photographs of the past year... and my words leaped out of the page…

2014. Gosh what a year it has been. I'm not going to lie but every time I begin to write this end of the year post I think... what interesting things have happened this year? And then I begin to pour through the photographs and am just in absolute awe of ho…