When time feels like it’s flying, or difficult moments become overwhelming, I try to take a step back and be present – finding beauty in the everyday. That can be easier said than done, but I find that if I can force myself to go for a walk, or even a drive on a sunny day, I am able to make space for peace and slow things down for a moment.

Pre-Covid, my husband and I had big plans to turn our basement into a decked-out movie and game room. We had been saving, talking with contractors, working on the layout, and filling online shopping carts with everything we wanted. In March of 2020, we scheduled a final meeting with a contractor – just a few […]

He was the guitarist in a band. I was the weird art girl. The drummer of that band and I had been friends since middle school, and I was a co-captain of our Relay for Life team – a team that the whole band decided to join. Sean and I had never really talked before, […]