I’ve been on a really deep spiritual soul journey this year. I mean, I’ve always been on it – but this year it has gone deeper than ever before. Not to beat a dead horse with the sober talk, but not having a sip of alcohol for 7 months has only helped me to go […]

Sounds like an uplifting topic, right? I don’t feel very uplifting in the current moment if I’m being completely honest – but I’m going to process my feelings and turn it around. Yesterday was July 4. We’ve never been big July 4 party people or anything and didn’t have a big group of friends we […]

Life is filled with peaks and valleys. It’s just the nature of it. Not many people just have a smooth sailing line to “the top”. Ups and downs. Highs and lows. Light and dark. Peaks and valleys. Why does it have to be this way? Well – I think it’s because we live in a […]

How many times have you heard “everything happens for a reason?” Probably way more than you can handle, right? Because let’s face it – this life can throw some real shit storms our way. There is pain and loss and death and heartbreak and accidents and cancer and divorce weaved all throughout our lives. It’s […]

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, difficult as it is…You must live in the present, launch […]

I read this story recently in Eckhart Tolle’s book “A New Earth”…..There was a Zen Master named Hakuin who lived in Japan. He was well-known and people came to him from all over for spiritual guidance. When his neighbor’s teenage daughter got pregnant, she told her angry parents that it was the Zen Master next […]

It has been a while since I’ve written anything besides random FB posts here and there that are probably too long for social media posts these days. I always want to come here and start and then I think fear takes over because I guess I’m scared of what emotions might come out when I […]