#bynslife

All Photos are mine, taken by me and my "steemit" kids @abyni & @knightengale as well as my husband @serapium may be seen in some of them :) Living on a sailboat, at least in our case, meant

I saw This AMAZING looking challenge today and knew that I wanted to participate. I like looking back on the year and seeing what worked and even what didn't. I have a LOT more to say on these subjects,

Well, today is a slightly odd day. We, who rarely leave the house, are heading to Houston today so that our youngest daughter @abyni can audition for America's Got Talent. She taught herself to play the

So, the “Wild Things” have been a big part of our life for a very long time. I don’t know why, but the book by Maurice Sendak of “Where the Wild Things Are” was always a favorite. I, of course, did all

How Tattoo #5 came about (really these posts are just as much stories about my life and a lot of me oversharing... the tattoos just gives me a place to focus my attention, for as much as I am capable of

Photo by one of my former students and someone I admire greatly: Kara at K.S. Visual Media @steemiteducation Homework: Why did you become a teacher? I remember being 9 or 10, those are really my earliest

Everyone was dressed in black. I stared down at my own black clothing, my huge pregnant belly sitting in my view. Everyone was so concerned about me, about the baby, but what did it matter. I didn't want

PART FOUR: The Dragon Tattoo So this tattoo came about because my favorite (and only local) tattoo guy was getting married. He messaged me asking if I happened to want a tattoo that we could barter for.

PART THREE: What Goes Around Comes Around Trigger Warning Childhood abuse So for quite a few years, I had a major P!nk obsession. I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) her music while I was working through

**Although not at all graphic, this post might be TMI if you're the sensitive sort, so avoid it if need be. ;) My second tattoo came quite a bit later. I was probably almost 32. (Wow. I can't believe I

I don’t consider most of my tattoos to be any sort of deep, meaningful symbol of my beliefs or whatnot, but maybe that fact in and of itself says a lot about me. They all designate something that was important

#introduceyourself This post is really mild when it comes to language, but I can be pretty confident in saying that most of my posts will probably contain NSFW language. I could easily write a post that