About Me

This is me. I am rarely photographed but end up taking about one selfie each year, usually to show my husband a new haircut or pair of glasses.  Here we have a selfie highlighting both.

It seems good to start this blog with an intro post, just to give any readers an idea of who is talking here. I've always loved having a face to put with a voice.  So much that when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll often flip to the back cover or Google the author's name to see their face. It somehow helps me to settle in and hear the author better, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense logically but is true nonetheless.

So let me start by saying, "Hi, I'm Sarah," and tell you 10 things about me.

1.  I'm 42 years old and love this age so much.  For one thing I've always loved the number 42, and for another it turns out that I also love the hallmarks typical to this phase of life.  I love living comfortably in my skin, I love the calm of knowing just which things I need to concern myself with (and which things I don't), I love where my husband and I are in our marriage, I love having adult children.  I just really love the freedom of the 40's.

  

2.  I grew up in northern California and moved to the southern Oregon coast when I was fourteen.  That's where I met my husband, Jeff.  

Blurry babies on their wedding day!  

I had just turned 20 and Jeff was still hanging on to his last days as a teenager.

3. Three babies joined the home in four years, while Jeff and I were still babies ourselves.  Well, other people tell me that we were babies.  I feel like we just grew up really fast. 

4. My hobbies aren't terribly diverse or interesting but those that I do love are: reading, hiking, gardening, baking with sourdough, and game nights.  My Instagram is basically a collection of photographs of me doing those activities.  😂

5. I love a road trip with loud music bumping and a giant Diet Coke fountain drink in my cup holder.  As I get older that means more pit stops to use the restroom but I don't let that stop me. Instead, I simply created a new travel motto:  

I don't make good time, but I do have a good time!  

And yes, I know--aspartame.  But there is just the one life I get to live and a road trip with a Diet Coke gives me so much joy.  I've made my peace with it.  

6. My favorite and most over-used emoji is 😂.  It's appropriate, given how quick to laugh and how prone to cry-laughing I am IRL.  

7. I'm a Type A personality who has tamed with age.  Remembering the zeal of my youth is the most certain way to make me cringe these days.  I think I must have been something like a well-intentioned ball of fire in my 20's. Feeling like I was blazing a righteous trail but maybe also scorching a few things along the way.  I wish I could go back and tell my 25 year-old self to relax.  

8. I love thrifting.  Love it.  

9. I'm fond of words and books and am almost always reading something.  I try to mix up my genres and stretch myself in my reading, but home bases are classics, biographies, and historical fiction.  My TBR (to be read) list is out of control.

My current read.

10. In 2016, our family sold our home and everything in it.  We purchased a truck and fifth wheel RV, then set out to full-time travel the U.S.  I kept a blog during that time that chronicled our routes, outings, and discoveries.  The family has often gone back to read and remember our adventures on the Hey Cato's blog.  After five years of exciting experiences on the road, we bought a house in southern Idaho and started an adventure of a different kind:  launching young adults out into the world.

Our RV and truck, nicknamed Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper because they get "hitched"!  😂 

We decided that by naming them this way, we could right a great wrong that happened on "The Wonder Years."

Okay, so that's probably more than anyone will ever want to know about me.  I'm looking forward to getting going on this new writing project.  I have been having a hard time finding much time to write, but I think with winter approaching I will have more.