March Motivation

Hey there! It’s been a while since I wrote a current-events post. As usual, I am busy thinking up so many things I want to do and trying to do everything at once and then feeling overwhelmed and rushed and anxious about life. How do you find balance? I constantly feel the need to create […]

Fiona

Last night I saw a video about a baby hippo named Fiona, who lives at the Cincinnati Zoo. She is so stinking cute I can hardly stand it. So I decided to make her the subject of my drawing today! Drawn with 2H pencil and shaded with Staedtler 0.3 mm triples fineliner pens. Edit: […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 7 – Hanging Bridges

We spent Friday exploring the hanging bridges at Arenal Sky Adventures. It was a very warm day, and there was a lot of hiking to get to each bridge. We saw many cool trees and plants, and we even saw capuchin monkeys! The hanging bridges were neat, since they let you walk up in the […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 6 – Thanksgiving with Hurricane Otto

Thanksgiving has long been a favorite holiday of mine. Getting together with my loved ones and sharing massive quantities of food – what’s not to love? Thanksgiving 2016 strayed a bit from tradition for us. Not only were we in a foreign country, far away from family, but said country was expecting to be hit […]

Costa Rica Trip, Day 1 – Getting There

Getting to La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica is no simple trip. After staying up until 11:30 to pack, we had to get up again at 1:30 am to go to the airport. We got there so early that the check-in counter wasn’t even open yet, which meant that we stood in line for a […]

Helpless?

What a week! On Monday I returned to Toastmasters. I hadn’t been there since I finished my Competent Communicator book back in June. I was welcomed back with open arms, and when I was introduced to give the quote of the day, the applause was thunderous. It was nice to feel so welcomed and to […]

Looking Back and Forging Ahead

There’s a lot of negativity online regarding 2016. It does seem like there have been more celebrity deaths than normal, and of course, the hostility surrounding the election has cast a pall over a large part of the year. Outside of our Ameri-centric bubble, things are looking even gloomier other parts of the world – like Syria, for […]

Living la pura vida

Hello! It has been ages since I last wrote, but for good reason. Dave and I were busting our butts to get ready for our trip to Costa Rica! We were there for two whole weeks, which was amazing! It was a much needed break from work and daily life, and a reminder that life […]

Throwback Thursday: If I had 3 Wishes

In first and second grade, my teacher encouraged us to make books so we could practice our writing skills. At the time I was very impressed with myself because I wrote a lot of books. In looking through these “books”, 30 years later, I am amused by the fact that very few of them are […]

What is my life?

As I sit down to write tonight, I’m already irritated because I can’t find the list of writing prompts I thought I’d saved somewhere on my laptop. I’m annoyed because the screen is too bright, even when I finally figure out where to go to turn it all the way down. I’m frustrated because I […]