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Happy April, lovely soul! I sure do hope you’re having a long weekend however you want + need it to be. For me, I’m taking it very, very slow. Celebrating just being here. And…

There is still magic in the air. We’re just a few days past Halloween/Samhain and the energy still feels mysterious and mystical to me.The ever-darkening days of October have plunged me deep into my…

I’m thinking it’s time for a fun questions and answers post, because we all love a post with lists. And we all love learning random things about others. Plus, this one creates community and…

I need to tell y’all what’s going on in my life. I want to tell you. It’s something I haven’t been talking about, but that is slowly becoming something very, very important to me.…

Why must something happen to us in order for us to begin to give a damn? How is it possible that we cannot seem to take anyone else’s suffering into consideration – even when…

You guys, my 15 year old self, 20 year old self, and even 30 year old self would have never thought of myself as a Boss Woman. Like, for real. I mean, I felt…

HAPPY 4th OF JULY, USA! ?? For all of us who are Americans, all around the world, we’re celebrating and remembering our Independence Day. And while I am (surprisingly) in the mood to celebrate everything…

while lina + i were in the states this summer, we were asked to be guests on a local podcast in asheville. it was super fun and we suddenly, immediately, decided that it was…

well, my friends, it seems as if i have gotten over the initial shock of having to move (read my tiny freak out post here). of course, in the moment of my feelings of…

it’s no secret that i love, love, love photography. and to get my daily photography fix, i use instagram like it’s going out of style. seriously, i am a major, self-proclaimed instagram addict. but,…

almost two weeks have come + gone since the last weekend of my life coach training. now that things have settled and sunk in a little bit, i thought it was time to share with…

you thought i was done with my year-long spotify playlist project, didn’t you? well, with this post i am here to say that “i am not yet done!”. think of this an an encore. …

i have so many photos to share this week, that i’ve decided to split them up into two different //week twenty eight// posts. yay! last week i spent the entire week off the grid.…

i had every intention of writing this sometime monday morning. but, here it is, late monday night. i am sitting in near darkness, with only the soft glow of our red christmas star hanging…

take your time, dear friends, and let these last words sink in. just listen. and feel. John Crawford was holding a toy gun as he stood in the toy section of a Walmart. Before the…

remember how i said on monday that i was focusing on the value + emphasis that native americans put on families? well, i truly have been thinking about family a lot this week –…

i have an announcement to make – and it’s not so much about me. well, it is about me in the sense that it affects me in amazing ways, but i’m not the one…

i did it, friends. i made it to the cathedral/basilica every day this week. being committed and following through is such a powerful feeling. there were no major personal revelations or anything, but it…

today i hosted a fika at a cafe for local coffee lovers who have stumbled onto my 40 days fika blog, followed my fika project, and/or been on my asheville coffee page on facebook.…

after enjoying every single moment of being in the urban jungle of asheville, it is time. time to head away from the city and out into the wilderness of the surrounding mountains. time to…

yes. i had a mini-meltdown yesterday. and, as i suspected, today i feel much better. i suppose i just needed to get that all out. i needed to process. and i needed y’all to…

you know how i have been doing photo a day challenges for over a year now? well, i have and i love it. i love it so much that i began to make my…

i saw part of an old episode of oprah the other day. she had a woman, a brain scientist, on talking about strokes. the woman had written a book, my stroke of insight, about her…

i was sitting on the train this evening,  headed back home, staring out the window and listening to music. my love was sitting across from me. i felt calm and at peace. i was…

i’m under my covers, sipping on coffee, safe in sweden, while chaos is unfolding across the atlantic in boston, massachusettes. i’ve got a local boston tv station streaming live and i’m checking twitter every…

hi! just sharing a quick & short hello late on a sunday night. i miss y’all. i haven’t blogged since last week, and it feels weird. but, there has been much more important stuff…

two years ago today i launched & introduced belovelive.com. back then, i was a simple little american adjusting to her 7th month living in sweden. i was in the middle of my swedish studies,…

hey lovelies! well, it’s only a week and some days before we rip down another page on our calendars and begin a new month. crazy, huh? i was thinking… since it was so much…

here it is!! the march photo a day challenge! and boy, it’s a doozy. it’s gonna be a tough one. but that’s the point, right? time to get our creative juices flowing. so, grab…

today i’m celebrating the first week of belovelive’s photo challenge for february. yay! to begin with, i thought i’d share with you some of the photos from this week that others shared, and then show…

that’s right. after a month off, i decided that all i really needed was a little break. a breather, you could say. and, i’ve had that now. sooooo…. beginning tomorrow on the first of…

it’s gonna be a big year. exciting. potentially dream-making. i have no idea how, i just know it. if you don’t understand what i’m saying. it’s ok. neither do i. it’s just a feeling…

it’s over. back in the end of november i decided to create my own photo challenge, inspired by december holidays and happenings. i figured out some important & key words, looked at dates, and…

let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. ~ sy miller and jill jackson wishing you all, my dear readers, a beautiful holiday season. thank you for being who you…

i got a comment the other day from the mezz which touched me deeply. and i’ve been thinking alot about it ever since… she said, in her comment, that she was glad that i…

i read a bunch of really awesome blogs every day. the picture above is from victoria’s blog, just one of the many, talented writers i have discovered & connected with thanks to wordpress & other…

it’s been raining for about 24 hours now. and it’s really, really chilly outside.  i suppose it is the perfect first day of fall (today actually is the first day of fall, you know).…

i have a good life. no. a great life. sometimes i wonder, though, how everything appears from the perspective of my blog… let me reassure you, my life is great and amazing, but it…

“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me…

i could be angry. but i choose to channel that anger into passion. i could live in fear. but i choose to face my fears. i could feel overwhelmed and give up. but i…

i just re-read the post i wrote before i left for my week of camp, and noticed that i was expecting to find solitude and rest. well, my week in the archipelago didn’t turn…

happy sunday, all you out there! here in sweden, summer continues as it has been… rainy & gray.  of course, every now & then there’s a day of brilliant sunshine and unbelievable weather. but,…

pic from here. well, folks. i’m off. off the grid, that is. ready for a week of retreat and community. thought i’d share one little image of an inspiring picture that i love. it…

for my own mental health, i have given in to the new year’s resolution/promise thing. i figured i needed some discipline in my life. some routine. and it felt like a good decision this…

i once met a single mom who had 4 or 5 kids (i don’t remember exactly). the oldest was in one of the special education classes i taught in a little town in nc.…