A good neighbor

On a recent fall morning in a small city park shelter in one of the suburbs that make up the Des Moines Metro area in this little swath of the Midwest, activity happened. Twenty-three geocachers were signing or stamping one hundred-nineteen postcards meant for forty-eight states, the District of Columbia, Japan and South Korea. There […]

I am still here – Redux

I actually handwrote this entry out before typing it here. It’s been awhile since I did that, but often writing things down on paper, while time consuming, is more productive creatively for me. My dearest, most magical readers….. You’ve probably been wondering where I have been. It’s been awhile since I posted anything on the […]

Life Lessons from Geocaching: Solo Adventuring

The other half and I have been geocaching now since 2019. If you don’t know what geocaching is, well, there is a blog post I wrote about that. But this is a post in what I will hope will be a series of posts about the lessons of life that I have learned while doing […]

Life Lessons from Geocaching: Adventure awaits

The other half and I have been geocaching now since 2019. If you don’t know what geocaching is, well, there is a blog post I wrote about that. But this is a post in what I will hope will be a series of posts about the lessons of life that I have learned while doing […]

Finding Magic in the Mundane

I don’t lead an extraordinary life. Far from it. I work a pretty mundane full time customer service job where I am face to face with people all day long. I come home to my fairly mundane two bedroom brick house on the southside of the largest city in Iowa, known as part of flyover […]

“I wish you’d grow up”

When I was younger and living in the Golden State, my grandmother across the country used to send us money for Christmas. Each person got a set amount usually in the middle of December to spend as we pleased. My parents would take us shopping in the weeks leading up to Christmas so that we […]

The rest is still unwritten….

Lately, the muse of writing has been kind of quiet in my life….. But that’s understandable. I’ve been busy with other facets. I do work a full time job and sometimes it gets crazy there. The adventuring with friends to find geocaches has been strong, especially since I am less than twenty days from a […]