“There’s no lemon so sour that you can’t make something resembling lemonade.” ~ This Is Us We can complain about the rain or rejoice that everything is getting watered for free. Being positive and seeing every glass as being half-full isn’t something we can always achieve, but there is something about going through difficult times […]
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one every come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Theresa “All you need is love.” ~ the Beatles Can we all agree that our world needs more love right now? With cautious optimism, we are looking forward to celebrating Valentine’s Day already, because we feel like we […]
I am grateful for winter. It reminds us that everyone and everything needs a quiet time. If there was ever a time when we needed a little quiet time, it is at this moment. It seems that our world has been spinning out of control, and we’ve been completely oversaturated with bad news, upheaval, unrest, […]
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called OPPORTUNITY and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce Welcome to 2021 dear friends! You may have seen the challenge floating around on social media asking people to select […]
Ladies, we are at the finish line of this long and winding road called 2020! Looking back, it hasn’t all been bad; the negative often gets magnified while the positive takes a modest back seat, and we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we focused only on the difficult hurdles we all faced. We […]
“The waves of the sea help me get back to me.” Sonoma County Coast, our backyard ocean and favorite beaches, is a place of serenity and peace. It encapsulates the romantic ideal of walks or lazy hours wrapped in something warm, book in hand, sitting on the beach admiring the crashing waves and possibly snatching […]
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus Hibernation; finding a warm hideaway place to sleep through the winter before emerging in the spring. We won’t lie, this actually sounds like a wonderful idea, haha! But as humans we have to soldier on and […]
Tough times traditionally bring about similar results; we slow down, look around at what we have with a thankful heart, and even embrace some things from the ‘good old days’ with happy nostalgia. We tend to think back of earlier times when things weren’t as difficult…or perhaps when things were also challenging, but we can […]
Raise your hand if you would like to just hibernate for the rest of the winter and wake up when the pandemic is over, life is back to normal, and a magical fairy cleaned your entire house for you while you were sleeping! Unfortunately we can’t clean your house and we don’t know when the […]
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen Life happens every day, the moment to moment mundane or magical that combines to create the rhythm of our existence. When we are in a moment it can see endless, but once it […]
It isn’t the season for Valentines, but if there was ever a time for extra love, it is now! It would be easy to succumb to the stress of the upcoming holiday season, in addition to the overwhelming demands of a woman surviving this record year called “2020”, but we want to offer you something […]
Is there anyone alive who does not need an extra dose of cozy?! And we aren’t just referring to whether it’s chilly enough in your neck of the woods for warmer clothes to accompany your morning cup of joe. The accumulative global and national issues of this year certainly calls for the most cozy, hug-simulating, […]
