Today, I find myself holding a quiet kind of melancholy...a soft ache that lives in the spaces between breaths...a quiet grief with an ember of hope lighting my way. The trees are still doing their sacred work—offering oxygen without asking for than...

As a First Responder Crisis Intervention Specialist and counselor, I have found myself wanting more joy and connection in my life. I love what I do as a Crisis Responder, but it is also very intense and I crave something that lights my soul up, as w...

I went to our wildlife preserve island today, with the dogs. The island spreads out over 1,200 acres with beautiful open and wooded areas. The park is not only the biggest park in Salem, Oregon, but it is also larger than Central Park in New York Ci...

Hi, my name is Linnea Baker. In case you were wondering, my name is pronounced is "lyn-NAY-uh" and it is Swedish. However, I am mostly Scottish and German with some Swedish and Norwegian thrown in. I am a true Pacific Northwest girl as I gre...