I can’t believe it’s been one full year since we scooped our stubborn, sassy, shedding husky up from the Maricopa County animal shelter!
“What did you do last week?”
2/12.
It’s been a pretty chill (figuratively, not literally) February here in Flagstaff.
I’ve been trying to keep my nose buried in various books lately.
Maybe one day I’ll go backpacking somewhere where everything isn’t trying to maim, stab, injure, scratch or otherwise kill me.
But, because I live in Arizona, yesterday was not that day. 
Ryan and I just got back from a two-day, one-night backpacking trip down in the Superstition Wilderness Area of the Tonto National Forest, where we turned off our iPhones, traversed across dry creek beds and took in expansive views of towering Saguaros.
We’re already off to an awkward start here. Are you reading this on your phone?
Yikes.
After a few years of working in wildfire response, I’ve become a bit of an Incident Command System (ICS) nerd.
My 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) and my 300-hour YTT were worlds apart — literally.
1/12.
January was a blessedly slow month after a hectic fall and December. Ryan spent the first two weeks of the month down on the Tonto, working on the Horton Fire, spent his third week of January home with me, and then left last week for a work assignment over in the Alabama-Florida border.
I’ve had quite a bit of time for myself this month, which has been really, really nice!
New year… new book goals!
