New Camera Day!

[03/04/2017] Got the D5600 today from my local photo store. This is my first "new" camera ever (it’s recent enough there’s no used ones really available)- and my last D5000 I bought used in 2009, so I’m excited for a camera upgrade after 8 years. Technology has really improved (plus all the issues my D5000…

50 Goals for 2017

So I had a big, beautiful post written called Hustle & Grace about how this year I’m focusing on actions not outcomes. And in it, I said that instead of publishing a massive list of goals for the year like I usually do, I am focusing on things within my control rather than externally-influenced outcomes. But to…

Day 175: Guns in Black and White

[12/26/2016] Day after Christmas. Morning cardio circuit at NECC, followed by spending the day working on Oh My Dollar. Wrote a fundraising email for StreamPDX, read a bit, and biked to hot yoga at Yoga Union. Came home sweaty and rained on and took this photo before bed :-P Do I look tough? Or just…

2016 New Year’s resolution review

I’ve been posting my new years resolutions online and then reviewing my success at the end of the year. 2016 was a giant cluster of crazy where absolutely nothing worked out the way it was planned. 2016, in a nutshell, was unpredictable: 3 totally different careers, a jump into self-employment, moving house with a week’s notice, a crazy presidential election, and, well, we’ll see how that did in the resolutions:

Day 105: Leap Up

[10/19/2016] Spent the day mostly working on the business: morning at the bank to get my business account set up (Rivermark Credit Union!) – brief interlude for coffee with Patrick downtown, and an incredibly hard lunchtime work out (it’s called Pyrolates and holy crap it was hard- I am sore in new places and I…