GAPS Update // Challenges and Blessings

I have learned so many things so far in this first six weeks of investing in the GAPS protocol. I say investment because it truly is -- an investment of time and energy and, yes, money into what I am believing are huge improvements for the future. I have already seen a lot of improvement…

the vine.

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from you can do nothing. - John 15:5 Today the tattoo struck again. Farmer's market was over, and I was standing in line with Israel at the food truck. Another…

hippies and cowboys

Spring fever hit hard. Like I do, I got the exploring bug, and this time it brought me to a little cafe in rural New York's version of a Hallmark town. For the past half hour I've been sitting here, lazily drinking coffee and halfheartedly working on the last assignments due before spring break, while…

Kiss the Wave // 2018

  I keep trying to think of a song, or a phrase, or a story, to sum up this year. I must have begun writing this half a dozen times, doing the whole reflection thing we all do at the end of the year. This year, the reflecting was hardcore. A few days before Christmas,…

Five more minutes

Last weekend was the product of a crazy idea. A crazy idea that was born, of course, in the minds of six cousins (and one cousin's wife), and wouldn't take no for an answer. College, work, travel, miles notwithstanding, we were all going to get together for the weekend. Academically speaking it was a terrible…

Verbatim.

Some anecdotes from the first month. All quotes used without permission. "I saw the truck you drove here in. It's the color white." - little boy "You crushed it!" - older EMT "Is that your truck?" - everyone "Holy crap, your eyelashes are long." - classmate "So you're the lady that sits there and types?"…