welcome to CRUSH & CO.

Meet your guide to a crush-worthy life

Embarking on a new chapter of life, I am exuberantly exploring a world where I transitioned from teaching for over two decades to a new career in instructional design and a recent move from Northern California to the Gulf Coast of Florida. Two kids on the launching pad, a wonderful husband by my side, and a life I am still discovering.

Pickleball, paddleboarding, boating, fishing, mah-jong, wine tasting, pilates, and coffee shops. And then, somewhere in the middle of all of it, I started writing again.

Crush & Co. is where that writing comes to life. Travel, food, wellness, beauty, aging parents, friends and everything worth crushing on in this beautiful, complicated, wonderful chapter of life.

Facts about me

coffee or wine

Wine

Favourite Food

Tacos

favourite season

Fall & Spring

FAVOURite Destination

Bora Bora

Favourite wellness

Pilates

Gulf Coast or Cali

Both

Dynamic aerial shot of a speedboat leaving a wake on open water, perfect for travel or adventure themes.

How Crush & Co. Came to Life

Quite a few years ago, I turned my hobby of writing into a personal blog called “Life is an Adventure.” That went dormant as life happened, as it so often does.

Then, when my youngest daughter headed out of state for college, I decided to change careers and spent that year enrolled in an Instructional Design program. Once I earned my certifications, I made the leap, leaving 25 years of teaching behind to start a whole new chapter in a whole new career field.

Shortly after that, during our adventures in travel, we discovered the Gulf Coast and fell completely in love. We became part-timers, living between Florida and California, until we made the ultimate move to Florida full time.

And in this new season of life, I reinvented my blog into Crush & Co. Being able to write and share the new things I am discovering, as well as writing about the things so many of us in this season of life deeply care about, is my greatest joy. Hopefully it resonates with you too.

We are all in this together. #lifeisgood

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