Brainstorming Goals

I have been taking a class the last few months on visioning. The entire class centered around creating a 5-year plan for ourselves. We spent weeks brainstorming our goals. The end result was to be 6 BIG, HAIRY, AUDACIOUS GOALS (BHAGS). For the record, these are not just your run of the mill aspirations, like…

Warm Weather Weirdness

There is something about the first serious string of warm days that makes people do weird stuff. Weird is a relative term since much of what I do could, by others, be considered the same. But living in a condominium community you get a little more dialed into your neighbors every day habits than you…

Wasted Time

“When I think about those summer nights Singing out the window, on the back roads, Sweet Child of Mine Sipping on the local’s spark of light Ain’t it funny how the best days of my life Was all that wasted time, all that wasted time Out of nowhere, it slipped away And the rope by…

Traveling Adventures

Travel is almost always synonymous with adventure. It often goes awry and especially when flying you’re at the mercy of the process. Recently, I took a last-minute trip to North Carolina and was gone about 40 hours. How much can happen? If you’re Lowi, a lot can happen on one flight. She makes fast friends…

Laugh Out Loud!

Sunshine or sarcasm, peace or anxiety…it’s all about flipping life on its head. Sometimes finding the lighthearted is easy and sometimes we resist, but it’s out there. You may have seen the Coca Cola video where a man is on a train watching something on his iPad and he is laughing hysterically. He is oblivious…

Simplicity as a Spiritual Practice

When you focus on a way of being it’s amazing how it shows up everywhere. All month Lowi and I have been dialed into the concepts of simple, simplified, simplicity. What I didn’t anticipate was that just because I am working on simplifying my life doesn’t mean everyone else is. Over the weekend, I had…