Thirty, Flirty and Thriving: Keep Your Thirties Flirty as a Married Woman
Today is my half-birthday. No need to send cards, but if you feel like shooting me a funny meme about being almost 30, I will gladly accept. Also, in case you missed that, I AM ALMOST 30. To be honest, I’ve never really dreaded or feared the big 3-0. You know why? If...
Training for a Half Marathon: Pushing a Stroller for 13 Miles
And with the click of a button, Nate and I are now committed to training for a half marathon. We signed up to run in the Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) Half Marathon on July 31 in Estes Park. While that is a little more than three months away, I know the time is...
How I Became a Runner Who’s about to Take on a Half Marathon
In just three months, I will be running in my first half marathon in Estes Park, Colo. You can read about how Nate and I are training to push not only ourselves across the finish line, but also our little nugget and his stroller, in another post. For now, let me tell...
My Goal to Read More Books and How I’m Making It Happen
One of my goals for 2021 is to read more – 25 books to be exact. To some of you, that may seem like an easily achieved goal. To others, like me, it looks manageable at first and then you find yourself six months into the year with zero books read. This year, I finally...
‘See That Toxic Person’: Things You Probably Shouldn’t Say to Moms of Kids with Disabilities
Recently, I’ve found myself swept up in the Instagram Reels and Tik Tok craze. I really do enjoy making those silly, short videos. One especially popular audio track circling the platforms is: “See that toxic person, walk the other way.” It’s set to music, so it can...
We Shouldn’t Be Asking for God’s Guidance … True or Sacrilegious
We don’t have to, and in fact, we quite possibly shouldn’t, keep asking for God’s guidance. Now, before you gasp and wonder, Mackenzie, how could you have been led so astray from Biblical truth, please read this post in its entirety and remember the word I have...
Our Little, Big Miracle: The Journey to Meet Josiah
Many of you may have already read this post about our journey to meet Josiah on my Facebook account. This was our “announcement” post, you could say; telling our friends and family who didn’t already know about our journey and our little, big...
Need Motivation to Lose Weight? Sign Up for This Grand Canyon Adventure
Remember that time you had to lose weight to ride a mule? A question my husband and I hope to laugh at in 20 years. Poor, poor Nate. For the last couple months, he’s been working hard to lose weight for one primary purpose: to ride a mule into the Grand Canyon. That...
10 Tips for Developing a Successful Writing Routine
Where my writers at? If you enjoy writing blogs, books, poems, short stories or just some good, old diary diddles, and you’re hoping to produce ongoing work, setting a writing routine is essential. Every writing professor I ever had attempted to hammer this truth...
The Thing I Hate Most about Grief
What do you not get about grief? You can’t think about it. You can’t see or listen to the playlist you made of their top songs that you wanted for yourself and had to put together for their memorial service. You can’t look through the photo memories that pop up on...About Me
I'm a writer by passion and a lover of the human soul by design. I love to travel, be outdoors, find adventures, meet new people, hangout with old ones, ponder truth, and enjoy just about anything else that involves truly sucking the marrow out of life. As far as I can tell, life is made up of the intertwining of our stories with creation, people and our Creator. My plan: become deeply entangled with them all, and then share that beautiful mess with you!