No Shoes, No Shirt, No problems.

Ok, so I HAVE TO wear a shirt, I understand that society does require that of me. But the no shoes and no problems, well, I want to embrace that since I love soaking up life in bear feet without feeling the world on my shoulders.

Life is busy for me right now. Work is going smoothly, but we’re picking up, so that’s keeping me on my toes. I’ve been mentally preparing myself for starting school and tying up all the loose ends involved with that. I have been immersing myself in the company of eithers while I still have some bit of a life before school starts. Besides that, there isn’t much time left for anything else.

I picked up my “new” car this week-a ’99 Subaru Forester, coordinating getting all the car stuff switched over has been interesting, but I’m excited about my new ride. I think it’s a great fit for my lifestyle.

School starts on Monday, and WOWZA, I’m pretty nervous. I’m especially nervous since 3 out of the 5 days this week I already have plans. I’m wondering how I’m going to get it all done. Somehow though, it will all work out. Always does, one way or another.

I am working on getting my body back on a healthier eating schedule, and as long as I go about it meal by meal, looking ahead and making the right choices (not the instant), I can do it. I’m not going to commit to anything more than 1 meal at a time, and just try to make it healthy and yummy. So far, it seems to be working minus the girl’s wine night last night. But hey, we all needs those!

My stress level has been insanely high, but I am trying my best to lower the amount of negativity I’m letting rule my life. Negativity is bound to sneak in and take over sometimes, but I refuse to let myself continue my life with that. I can hear Kevin’s voice in my head telling me to stop worrying so much, to let it go, and to embrace the good. That’s all I can do, all I HAVE TO DO.

Life is good. I’m just trying to see all the Good I have, and not all the things that haven’t been just that. Life is going to happen no matter what I do. So I am going to sail through, no shoes, no shirt (well, sometimes, lol) and no problems.

Brenda Sieglitz

Brenda Lee Sieglitz is an author and public speaker whose topics focus on travel, grief, and nature. Widowed in 2008 at 24 years of age, Brenda is an advocate for sarcoma patients, the widowed community, and conservation through her volunteerism with the National Park Service, Lancaster County Conservancy, Pennsylvania Master Naturalist, Hospice of Lancaster County, Soaring Spirits International, Angiosarcoma Awareness and Highmark Caring Place. Brenda won the 2009 Associated Content “Content of the Year” award, and in 2011 was named one of Wyndham Women’s “Women on their Way”. Most recently her love and loss memoir, Ebb from the Shoreline, won 1st Place Editor’s Choice in Nonfiction at the 2014 North American Book Awards. Sieglitz holds a degree in business and became a Pennsylvania Master Naturalist in 2015. In her spare time, she adores playing with her two nieces, going on family adventures with her husband, stepdaughter and son-in-law, hiking, camping and is working to complete her bucket list dream of visiting all National Park units. Sieglitz has been married to her best friend Dave since 2013 and continues to reside in Lancaster County with their two beagles Scotch and Fina.

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