All posts tagged: Self-Care

Looking for Christmas …

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Self-Care

The sky is gray, temperatures are hovering in the lower 30’s, icy drizzle comes and goes and not a snowflake in sight. This is not the deal I made with Spokane 9 years ago when we moved from the eternally damp bone chilling winters of the Washington coast to the Inland Northwest, the land of sunny skies and snowy white winters. Not this year, and not last year.  Since the beginning of December I could […]

Anchors & Axes …

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Addiction / Self-Care

The year, 1805 … The vessel, The HMS Surprise, a 28 Gun British Frigate in her majesties royal navy with 197 souls on board … Location, rounding The Horn in a terrifying storm … The Captain, J. Aubrey, ‘Lucky Jack’… The mission, “Intercept French Privateer Acheron, (known to the crew as, ‘The Phantom’) en route to the Pacific intent on carrying the war (with Napoleon) into those waters … Sink, Burn, or take her a […]