Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria

Ya’ll have been on this journey with us for a while and we cannot tell you how grateful we are. In four short days we will climb up Freemont Pass, battle Battle Mountain, stop for a second to take in the view and because it’s me, shed a tear or two.   As we have continued…

I disappeared in May. I disappear often, which can be a tad frustrating to my tribe. I emerge unpredictably like a rabid squirrel, looking around, wondering where everyone went, only to hear their reply. ‘We thought you had left.’ And I do leave, but I always come back in some unpredictable form or another. May…

Yesterday was Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day and I have complicated relationship. I love Moms. I love my Mom, I love my friends who are Moms, I love the people who have Mothered me along this road of life. This tribe of women has influenced me, held me on high, approached me with truths at times…

I’m a tad late to the party but I could not let today pass without wishing you all a Happy Rare Disease Day! A rare disease is a condition that impacts less than 1 and 2,000 of us. Did you know that between 3.5-5.9% of us have a confirmed, diagnosed, rare disease? We are 1…

I’ve been writing for a local publication- this young family was fantastic, so fantastic I thought I would share 🙂 “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves,” Sir Edmund Hilary. It’s not easy to keep up with the Jones’s. In August, Tanner and Tyler Jane Jones will have been married for seven years.…