About Me

I am an awesome, messy, kinda partially realized Self.  Ish.  

Then a wife, mom, family member, friend and community member in that prioritized order.  

Aug 2019 - 2021 me, hubby, 11 yo son, 9 yo daughter and cocker spaniel left our home, most of our family and lifelong friends at the very east end of Long Island and traveled multiple times back and forth across the country in a sprinter van, Honda pilot and then a travel trailer.  In the spring of 2022 we settled in western South Dakota.  

The years of lead up of the whys and hows we did that and the shit-storms and spirals that ensued before, during and after, are the backbone of the stories and resources I've been called to share as part of being willing to plant seeds of trees I may never see.  

Afterall, who couldn't use a reminder that 

“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO what a ride!”  -  Hunter S. Thompson