“Go back to your books, to your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.”

— Thorin Oakenshield

@ourtinycottage

Latest Posts

  • Entitled and not so Elite

    I have recently experienced a form of aggression that I have only experienced a handful of times in business, but now I’m going to spill it. I’ve said a hundred times that kindness and love matter and that they will… Continue reading

  • Any Day Now…(insert the eye roll)

    Rain is good for the soul, right? I thought so too until we have been under flood warnings again. I realize that there is nothing that I can do to stop the rain, believe me I would if I could,… Continue reading

    Any Day Now…(insert the eye roll)

  • Air…..not so much

    Like asthma steals your air, Heavy like suffocation under water, The weight of life creeps up and puts a rag covered in ether over my face.My eyes go hazy and all I see is you.You know my painYou know my… Continue reading

  • Thank you Rusty Peter

    I’ve Lost my dog. He wasn’t just any dog you see, he was beautiful, smart, and perfect for us! We have all said that he saved us, each one in their own way, he saved us. We uprooted our family… Continue reading

    Thank you Rusty Peter

  • ❤️🤪❤️😍

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my love of the English language and how when I was a kid I would read a Thesaurus just for fun. Somehow in our attempt to “simplify” everything we have created an entire… Continue reading

  • 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my love of the English language and how when I was a kid I would read a Thesaurus just for fun. Somehow in our attempt to “simplify” everything we have created an entire… Continue reading

  • Can you hear me?

    As I hold your hand I thought about how many times I studied them, the shape, your fingers, your rings, the softness. I think about the mornings over a cup of coffee and a cigarette and watching how you held… Continue reading

  • Empathy. Get ya some!

    I am an empath. There. I admit it. My kids tease me that I wear a sign at all times saying “Tell me your life story, your grossest physical ailment, all about your drama, what’s hurting you, and let me… Continue reading

  • Little Truant Bird

    Queen of the eye rollers, that’s me! If fact,  I roll them when I don’t even mean to! I used to think it was a habit, but I am fairly sure that it defines me!! It must have been genetically… Continue reading

  • Cha cha cha changes

    Ask for a topic and I get several and really all of them give me ideas that give way to larger discussion! Choices, strength, friends, finding yourself, graduation, marrying into a family (of which I won’t touch!), even tick viruses,… Continue reading

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