Over the weekend at our Kaleidoscope retreat, we performed a grocery store challenge: two teams bought ingredients for dinner and dessert respectively, then we switched roles to prepare each part of the meal for the rest of the group. While this could have been a tame endeavor, each team took the creative license to provide a little bit of a challenge to the other. The rules: you have 10 minutes and $20 to purchase the groceries; you must use each ingredient,…
Maggie & Spencer took pictures of me & Benji.
I know, I know, I said that I’m doing this great and wonderful journey all alone and that I’m a strong, independent woman who doesn’t need a man to complete me. You might be surprised, then, at the fact that I basically view the world through a Tinderized lens, and the amount of times that I mentally swipe left is shrinking rapidly. I started out this trip saying to myself, “I think I shall take a…
The choruses of unsolicited advice that I should be completing this harebrained adventure with some kind of companion have mercifully begun to fade into the background. I think maybe their chanters have just begun to go hoarse. My favorite response when people like my distant cousin and her new husband, who are making their romantical cross-country honeymoon in a biofueled, camper-backed Toyota Tacoma (I’m not jealous at all), recommend that I do this with someone else is laden with sarcasm…
But really, why.
“Dearest Fear: Creativity and I are about to go on a road trip together.”
Meet Grace the human
Meet Benji the van
In June, I said goodbye to an entire way of life.
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