Love-Inspiring Video to Start your Week:

This song was just uploaded to my iPod last night, and I’ve already listened to it a total of 67 times. No joke.

The goofy-laugh-loving momma inside of me totally feels this song. I get tingles every time he says, “I want to hurry home to you. Put on a slow, dumb [...]

Bringing Love Back Down To Earth

In my  last post about falling into long-distance love, I asked you all how long you would carry on an email/phone/skype-based romance before you put it to the test of a real meeting…
Bringing love “back down to earth,” may neutralize a bit of the lighting-bolt magic, but  ultimately its what gives the relationship the chance to fully grow and mature, right?
When I asked my friend [...]

What if You Fell in Love?

What if you fell in love, madly in love, with someone you haven’t seen in years, or ever?
What if every dream you had for your future included them in it and every moment since the moment you realized their importance in your life you longed for their presence by your side?
So much intensity, beautiful intensity. But, [...]

Saturday Successes

Saturday was full of great things:
1). Having coffee with Super-Dad Simon of Help For Daddy.com
2). Enjoying the awesome-est summer BBQ with the PDX iHeartSingleParents Crew
3). Finally finishing the (very) complicated (at least to me) installation of Lucca’s bike seat (took me two plus hours, but I did it! and L was so excited. We went [...]

The Meaning of Dreams

What do you guys think….
Do the dreams we have when we are asleep have meaning in our lives and our destiny? or are they just the crazy result of too many peanut butter and pickle sandwiches before bed?
I’ve always had a slight interest (okay big interest) in the interpretation of dreams. Started with a dream [...]

2 Days Over Email, and the World is Changed

Is it possible that in the course of just two days your whole world can change? That colors can actually look different? That reality can shift so meaningfully that it seems as though you’ve finally just awoken to the full potential of being alive?
I have a good friend, a single mom, who tells me she [...]

How to Test True Chemistry?

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= Love?
The world is smaller thanks to technology…but is this helpful in the realm of love?
Here is my confession:
I’m smitten by men who live thousands of miles away from me. There is something about a decent man being in a different time zone that makes me swoon.
My mom calls these men, “G.U.”– Geographically Undesirable. I [...]

Sparks, Enchantment & 3 Tales of Love

I love sparks. Ms.Single Mama’s post on crush butterflies and flying sparks made me think of the way my sister and I measure the potential of a relationship. Both of us are happy-ending- hopeless-romantic- type girls. We need that spark. We set ridiculously high standards for that spark. Nothing else can exist if not first [...]

I’m Yours, Mr. Mraz

Aside from watching Lucca simply be, there is one thing these days that brings a huge smile to my face and the feeling that life is going to be okay… listening to “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz.

I generally avoid the news because it does nothing but cause me paranoia and anxiety. [...]

My Frog Prince

The only man in my life right now is the frog prince, and I’m not even absolutely sure he is man. It could be a frog princess for all I know. I haven’t actually been up close and personal with the frog, but it is definitely in my life and I like to imagine it [...]