Category Soul

After reading The 5 Love Languages and discovering that receiving gifts was at the bottom of my list, it got me thinking about gift giving.

I’ve always liked gifts, and I love giving them. But discovering that they aren’t “how I feel loved” made me really examine why. I’ve always loved surprising people, loved giving them gifts. Not simply for their birthday or the holidays. Those times can be rather obnoxious because you feel so pressured, you HAVE to get them something. I don’t like that. Yes, the holidays are a time of giving and love and that’s all fine and dandy, but it becomes very stale when you get someone something just for the sake of getting them something.

So what I figured out after thinking about this only a moment is that it isn’t that I don’t like to receive gifts, it’s tha...

One of THE best hikes in Washington State that in my opinion should not be missed is Hamilton Mountain. It’s challenging without being too difficult, depending on your fitness level of course and increases elevation without being “risky”.

There are a lot of reasons why it’s a great hike, but one of the biggest reasons it gets such a high scoring among visitors is because the views of the Columbia River Gorge simply can’t be beat.

On a clear and beautiful day you can see for miles and catch the white peaks of Mount Hood and Mount Adams in the distance as well as Table Mountain and Bonneville Dam.

Depending on which way you decide to travel, along the hike you get a chance to see beautiful water features including Hardy Falls, Pool of the Winds and Rodney Falls.

Although this wasn’t my fir...