I spoke with a dear friend this evening, and she said, 'what happened... why no more blogs?' 

I sort of hummed and hawed, and confessed that I just was feeling below par... almost a little too raw right now to write.

Our call coincided with a message I received from another dear friend,...

So, I write this Thanksgiving 2017, from my kitchen table... still suffering the TMI remnants of a horrible stomach bug that has quickly made it's way through the entire Galbraith family (save Leon who is on constant toast-making and water-fetching duties).  We are watching back-to-back...

So, yesterday was an "interesting" day.

I gave up coffee on Tuesday, trying to detox a bit, trying to align what I put in my body with how I'd ideally like to look and feel.  In short, just trying to climb out of "struggling" and morph into a zen-like creature, swanning around with beautiful...

I love Facebook memories.  One came up today, and it was from 6 years ago... it's just me sharing a simple quote:

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be" ~...

I sit here with a glass of red wine thinking perhaps writing is a little like driving and perhaps one shouldn't drink and write... but here goes anyway.

D messaged me today.  I don't know how I connected with D, but she is a very beautiful, very 'together', very...

20 years ago today, I got married.

Not to babe, but to my first husband.

(It's not so romantic to recall your 'first' wedding day is it..? The day when you promised yourself to another, that ultimately ended in heartbreak and heartache.)

It just jumped into my awareness today, as it was a fairly...

I am not a great friend.

Perhaps I should rephrase that... if I am being totally honest, I am a terrible friend.

I got called out this week by my good friend T, for not keeping in contact or generally being a nice human to her since we moved to the States.

I am sure that any one person that is...

It's an incredibly special day tomorrow.  Tomorrow, Saturday 30th September, my little brother D, gets married.

I think I have all the usual feelings, D is in his early twenties (my parents after having 4 kids, had 2 bonus kids in their forties!) and I feel really proud.  I feel like,...

(I wasn't sure how to share this story, because most of it isn't mine, and it's so new I haven't really had time to process it.  But it was so important, I am going to try and share it in a way that won't break any confidences)

I wrote (on 9/10) about 'you do you, and I'll do me' and...

I have been thinking on this all day, literally the whole day... pondering over the amazing responses I got from my amazing friends on a question I posted to Facebook.  You can read it below... but basically it was 'why so smug when good things happen to us? 'aka #blessed... I...

I can't be bothered to blog tonight, but I walked out on the deck and looked at the huge orange moon and listened to the I don't know what on the lake (birds? crickets? It's a cacophony of noise) and I know there is peace in being still.

My head and heart are in FL and I'm not ashamed of being...

Holy crap.  This hurricane, descending upon South Florida very shortly, is a BEAST.  We safely evacuated yesterday, and wait and watch from beautiful Alabama to see what will happen.  Our neighborhood (on the Jupiter Inlet) now has a storm surge warning, and we are completely...