1 Blog + 1 Blog = 2 Blogs

Six years ago I walked across a stage, received my diploma, and walked down the stage with a graduate degree in hand.  Professional Counselor was my new title and I felt comfort knowing my future was figured out.

For the next six years, in between birthing and mothering little ones, I logged the important 3,000 hours that would lead to my independent license. 

As soon as that 3,000th hour was logged, I signed up for the all-important independent licensing test, crammed my head full of information, and took the test that had been the goal for 6 long years.

I passed the test, breathed a huge sigh of relief, and then I quit my job.

Since that time, this is a good representation of how I’ve been. . .

Up, down, and all around.  Asking myself did you make the right decision?  Will you look back with regret?  Can photography really be your future????  One minute happy.  The next excited.  The next anxiety-ridden.  The next depressed. 

(Yep, I’m a therapist). 

A while ago I wrote about a few well known words that seemed to be echoing loudly from within. . . Mary Oliver’s question, what is it that you plan to do with this one wild and precious life, were words that  I couldn’t escape.  The day I walked into my bosses office to inform him that I would be leaving a job that I truly enjoyed to pursue something filled with uncertainty–all I could say was,  I never want to look back and wish I would have. . .

Friends, while I truly loved my job as a counselor, something in me came alive when I found photography. 

Why am I telling you all of this today?  (Besides the fact that I tend to be wordy?)  I want to introduce you to my new blog.  You see, I’ve said it before and it bears repeating. . . this space is sacred to me.  Running Chatter holds the story of our family.  It holds our memories, my thoughts, our stories, and my sometimes irrational working out of life. 

I respect Running Chatter and don’t want it to change.

However, I do want to share my photographic journey and especially share images and stories for clients.  Those can be found here.  I hope you will visit!