Hi, I’m Carie. I write daily posts about navigating these times.
Be wary of your regularly scheduled programming
How are you programming your life right now? How’s that working out for you?
TBH, binging Nashville on Netflix is working great for me. Doomscrolling —not so much. Sharing some thoughts tonight for anyone feeling a little bit hungry for some trust and truth.
Why is laughter important in friendships?
Excuse the extreme close up of my big mouth, but it’s evidence.
Words I highlighted today
It’s rough out there. But if you’re here and reading this — I have zero doubt that you’re here for a reason, you’re here with a purpose, and you were built for these times.
I did a thing
Once upon a time, I typed these words on my website: Please text or email — my brain connects only to my typing fingers.
So, the fact that I verbally shared my story this afternoon is a big deal.
Promise, kept
Keeping promises to others is easy. Keeping promises you make to yourself — well, I’m learning and growing and doing a much better job of it. But today it made me grumpy. ;)
Carie B Was Here
I’m not afraid of failure. The proof? I still try to take pics of the moon.
Choices
2025 showed us, again, just how much the world needs our best selves to show up. The world is counting on us to do so. We express our best selves when we find harmony in our own experiences. When we are constantly acting out life from an extreme stress response, we create more chaos.
Some thoughts on ways we might choose to show up, a little differently.
To Do
Today my creative energy went toward a video I created for my friend, to confess how I shipped her Christmas gift to my own address. She said I get to be a Kentucky fan now because the blue suits me (but I can’t get a paw print tramp stamp until they win the national championship DANG IT).
So I’m sharing a To Do list I wrote on this day in 2023.
A Planet to Remember (a Santa story)
Behold! My first published story circa 1986. I was in 5th grade. Funny how aliens & Care Bears remain super on brand for me as an adult.
Favorite Blonde
There, in the middle of an end cap display of room temperature prebiotic sodas was a single can of beer:
The moral of the story? What you seek you shall find. But you might find it where you least expect it.
It takes all kinds
One afternoon, I walked out of a trampoline park with a friend.
We both walked out and exclaimed some variation on the themes of Oh My Gawd.
I was surprised to learn that she’d exclaimed due to a pile of trash in the middle of the parking lot. My eyes were distracted by a beautiful sunset.
Without her, I’d have for sure stepped in someone’s leftover McDonald’s.
Without me, she’d have missed a glorious Colorado sunset.
We need each other. Don’t forget that.