"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."  -John Muir

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The Daft Punk song Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is on replay in my head. With three small kids at home, I’m constantly being pulled in 20 different directions. I move from task to task like a hummingbird—fast and efficient yet rarely stopping to take a breath. Preschool, laundry, dishes, meals, scattered toys. I’m operating at 10 out of 10, all of the time. 

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If my husband, Ryan, hadn’t married me, I’m pretty sure he would have married Excel.  I still wonder sometimes if the hours he spends with her, collecting and organizing numbers and data, would be considered infidelity.  Above all, Ryan has a respect for logic and systems.  He loves data collection, organization, maps, camping, and watching The Bachelor baseball.  When he put all these passions Continue Reading...