Elayna Alexandra

Today I took an awesome camera class from the illustrious Cameron from Cameron + Kelly  Studios. She is amazing and was able to dumb down the major functions of my Camera for me and the others in attendance. It left me feeling energized, enthusiastic, and totally in love with my camera and photography on a [...]

Summer has been all about simple things: 3 weeks with my mom, visits to the farmers markets, iced coffees, great salads, playing slap jack, long walks after afternoon thunderstorms, drinks with friends, and warm evenings downtown. It has also been about hard things, coming up against the struggles of a difficult job, the 8th anniversary [...]

I confess it was much easier to keep up on this blog and with the blogs of others when my job wasn’t as demanding as it is now. When my morning rhythm was earlier, faster, and then much less. I would arrive at work and an hour or two into the day (or much less) [...]

I am writing a strategic plan for my place of work. This is after planning and facilitating a two day strategic planning retreat, recovering, and now I am taking all those fractured pieces and trying to put them together with some glue to formulate a plan, something to guide us by, to help us navigate [...]

You don’t really need anything, so just dream. Be responsible and close the computer, walk away.

It is still even with the activity of laundry, supper being made by mother, airplanes flying by, traffic noise and my husband reading. There is stillness, things are simple today: food, walks, and work. The day feels rhythmic, authentic, and full even though it really isn’t any of this, or maybe it is. I am [...]

I have written about grant writing before and probably will many times again. Each time I dive into a big grant I am caught by the particular mindset that grant writing requires of you. How for me I struggle to achieve that mindset and once I am there fully present I revel in it. I [...]

What measures success? Is it a job at a fortune 500 company, or traveling the world and writing a book about it, or is it being peaceful and happy in yourself being fully present in whatever life you have? Who determines success for you –magazines, news, your parents, your children or you? How will you [...]