Today I’m really missing my Colorado mountains. Really missing my friends there.
So today I’m focusing on all the things I have to be thankful for:
- My mom and her health…
- tomatoes, avocados and red peppers
grapefruits and Florida oranges- a beautiful cream dresser to match Desta’s new bed (both unexpected gifts from friends)
- dark chocolate
- 79 degree weather in January
- Matt, who watched the kids so I could get my mid week long run in
- hot tea and a good book
It’s been a wild week. Desta was home again from school today. I sometimes feel like I live in crazy time. Crazy time is good. Slow time would be more fun. But this time is just right for what I need to learn. Trying to learn it all, step by step.

I was born in Jos, Nigeria many years ago. I spent the next nineteen years living in Liberia, Kenya and Ethiopia.