Well hellooooo everyone…my goodness it’s dusty in here. It’s been so long I almost forgot how to log into this awesome blogging site and add something new. 

So what’s new? Pretty much everything since I first launched fivenineteen in September 2009. And other than the COVID “sucker punch” post I did in this 2020 decade, we’re needing something fresh and healthy, right? I remember that feeling of screaming at the future just wondering when and how the pandemic would end. It seems so long ago and yet such a healing wound or scar. 4 years later we’re still not aware of all the impacts it had on our human race.

Marriage. Arizona. Work. YES – 3 big changes – wonderful, wonderful changes came around for ol’ fivenineteen here. E and I tied the knot in late 2021 in the middle of a head-spinning series of life changes we were making as well…we made a huge leap and built a house near Phoenix. What a change from 50-some years of living in the Seattle area! We are loving how we can get outside hiking or on our bikes year round. Man, I never felt like I had any seasonal depression in a cloudy environment, but now a year on in living in SUNSHINE I am realizing how much I am SOLAR POWERED! YES! 

I’ve got so much more and more as we rock into 2024 – stay tuned!