I’m sitting in a coffee shop in West Seattle with a friend and her brother. I’m crashing their weekly Write Night, laptop in hand and not really getting much done, but feeling content. The point is not to check off my tasks, after all, but to enjoy the evening. Justin juggles between 1-3 hours a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘generosity’
Serving vs. Being a Servant
In your relationship with your children… Your relationship with your partner… Even your work or contribution to the world… In your life, are you serving or are you being a servant? There is a very distinct difference between the two. The Servant Picture the classical version of a servant; a person in servitude to another, [...]
Stress, Happiness and Our Social Structure
I recently watched a National Geographic documentary called, Stress: The Portrait of a Killer. (You can find it on Netflix.) The entire documentary discussed the physiology and effects of social stress on our bodies and the sources of this epidemic of chronic stress in our modern lives. Did you know the American Psychological Association reports [...]
Good Men Do Exist
I remember being pregnant with Zeb and facing the decision every young mother is forced to faced. Being 17 and looking at single-motherhood pretty much guarantees that people will go to great lengths to scare the shit out of you. The intentions might be well-meaning but the message still feels pretty miserable: Parenting sucks, it’s [...]
Making Love Last
A reminder to focus on my love. You know sometimes I’m amazed Justin and I not only made it this far, and are still so in love with each other. We had both come from divorced parents and I especially didn’t have very many healthy relationship models. Neither one of us really knew what love [...]
My name is Tara. I am a mama and a lover, a full-time nomad, a passionate devourer of Life and an Organic Life Coach.
