Category: Notes from Home
-
Rooted in Two Places, Anchored in Love: A Season of Settling, Belonging, and Building a Life That’s Truly Ours
For the past three years, it feels like we have been a bit like traveling vagabonds. Never truly calling one place home. Never quite finding our setting. Always shifting like the tides between different places, homes, and seasons of life. Always feeling a little stuck, and perhaps a little lost too.We may not have always…
-
A Little Background Magic: Ambient Playlist, Cozy Homes, and Happy Pets
I think I may have found a new obsession.My older dog tends to bark at every little noise she hears, which has become a bit of a challenge during my youngest son’s naps. To help, I like to keep something playing softly in the background. The television works especially well because it adds a visual…
-
The Plants Still Speak: Small Potions, Sacred Teas, and the Magic We Brew By Our Own Hands
I used to love making things as a child while imagining they were mystical potions that could bring about some kind of change or transformation.I do not think that part of me ever truly went away. Now as an adult, I find myself brewing teas blended by my own hands instead. Each one still feels…
-
The Cycles Within: Honoring the Moon, The Body, and the Sacred Rhythms that Guide Us Home
Yesterday felt like the enormous closing of a chapter, marked by symbolic timing in more ways than one. We sold our old property, and at the same time, the return of my moon cycle arrived. For so long, women were deeply in tune with their bodies and monthly rhythms. Yet somewhere along the way, modern…
-
The Good Witch and the Season of a Story
I really have spent far too much time invested in this whole arc of a story, but I honestly couldn’t help myself. I recently had to subscribe to Hallmark Media just to finish the rest of my love affair with the Good Witch.Although admittedly, for me, some of the allure faded with the show itself.…
-
The Souls We Buried to Survive
There’s something I keep turning over in my mind lately when people talk about “reinventing” themselves. Are we truly reinventing ourselves? Or are we simply emerging from the depths of who we’ve always been? I’m talking about the deep work. The dark work. The kind of shadow work that drags you into the quiet corners…
-
Notes from Home – I’m Back
It’s me again.I’m back. 😅 I’ve probably spent more time than I’d like to admit circling myself – trying on different aesthetics, different versions, different “visions” of who I thought I needed to be. But after another season here in Florida, and after a little more soul searching, I’m back.This time without a mask, without…
Notes from Home 