Tandem For Two Blog

Spring Comes Every Year!

Spring can give us hope - a tangible example that we can get through the hard, cold seasons and not just survive, but bloom. It reminds us that a season...

Time to Let Go

But if we, like Marie Kondo, only keep things that "spark joy", then I am going to keep the items around me that help me celebrate where we live and...

Bright Spot in February

Perhaps this Valentine's Day, if you normally give a card maybe you shouldn't. Let's not do the expected, but instead offer to go for coffee or a walk and give...

Choose Your Own Adventure

You get to choose your own adventure. In this new year, I hope you celebrate where you live & where life takes you!

Thankful for Times Together

As we come into the last two months of the year, it is a time typically marked with family and friends, making memories, and celebrating together. Too often we race...

Overnight It's Fall

This is a season of patience. We wait for the leaves to turn beautiful colors seemingly made that way just for our enjoyment. Our gardening patience is rewarded with the...

Embrace In Between September Days

In this in between time when change is all around us, let’s embrace being in the middle. Enjoy the hot and the cold, the dark and the light, these uncertain...

Time to Road Trip!

It’s time to plan a road trip and honestly it doesn’t even have to be far from home. It just needs to be far enough where we can decompress and...

Summer Celebrating is ON!

When do we break out of the routine and invite others into it? When we are purposeful and intentionally gather friends and family together, it just doesn’t have to be...

Full Up with Spring Celebrations!

May is always a full month for us. Full of flowers and warmer days, full of birthday celebrations, our wedding anniversary, Mother's Day and Memorial Day. Now this year we're...

A Time For New Growth

We are surrounded by new growth all the time, but none more noticeable than in the spring of each year. As I have emerged from this winter, I have seen new...

Enjoy the In-Between

The idea of Spring always seems to bloom in the hearts of those of us who life in the Midwest by this time of year. It seems reasonable, since it...