I was born with a voracious appetite for all things. I was deeply hungry for action, friendship, laughter, competition, and of course food and more food. As a child when I...

My goal for 2020 is to live a lighter life. What’s driving this desire? It all feels like it’s going too fast for me and I want to slow down and savor more...

I did something really nice last week. Something simple, but out of the ordinary. My husband Randy is in the home renovation business. Whether it’s a bathroom, a kitchen,...

I feel so done with stuff. Stuff that’s been created without intention. Stuff that’s distracting me from what I really want to focus on. Stuff in my house that...

We have a large box full of cheap decorations that my husband Randy pulls out of the attic a week or two each year before Halloween. When our two boys, Cole and Will Riley, were...

We were sitting around the largest conference room table, all 40 of us, when our CEO announced that she had been offered an opportunity at a different company in a different...

My husband Randy has always been a minimalist. He was born and raised in Grosse Pointe, an affluent suburb of Detroit full of 1920’s mansions. His teen years were spent...

It’s easy to stand on top of a mountain and see beauty. But for many it’s much harder to see beauty in the everyday. Like a delicious and colorful dinner that...