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A Field Trip?! (A Hot Cheeto Story)
“I’m going to remember to take you with me to work today, Hot Cheeto!” The lady with the blue hair declared at the beginning of her week. By the end of the week, I knew it wasn’t going to happen. By the middle of the week, she was apologizing for the fact that she forgot…
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10 Years A Friend
Today marks 10 years since I started at my first job in Kansas City, Missouri. Because I’ve had issues with iCloud and Dropbox over the years, I don’t have any pictures from 2014, but I know I took a lot of them. So this picture of my roommate and me taken by a photographer friend…
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Music Is Memory
It doesn’t happen as often as it used to, but today I had the opportunity to just listen to music and color. In hindsight, not having anything “fun” to do on my phone definitely helped. I don’t remember what precipitated it, but I thought of a song from Hawk Nelson’s first album, Letters To The…
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What Is Surrender?
Last week, the Lord stopped me as I was wandering around aimlessly in my house and asked me a simple question: “What are you so afraid of?” And I knew what He meant, because I’ve been ignoring the Lord on this particular subject for at least 3 months. “What is that subject, Erica?” Funny you…
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A Snow Day!
Today I woke up to a snow day. As a self-employed person, I have the luxury of taking the day off when the sky decides to dump 6 inches of snow. Thankfully I had cleared the schedule when they began threatening the amount of snow we were supposed to get. I’m really glad I did,…
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Endings Bring New Beginnings
This weekend I am on the last Christmas/New Year’s, help-people-with-their-dogs adventure for at least two weeks. I promise I really did quit dog-sitting as a business. Last year Erica would wonder how much “quitting” was actually had… Speaking of Last Year Erica… I was thinking about a year ago today. I remember how tired and…
My Social Media-less Life
What it’s like living without the socials
My Social Media-less Life 