About

Hello. My name is Grace Kleppin.

I write this Blog from a small town in the Southwest, but I have also lived on both coasts, the Gulf, the Midwest and the South. It’s a big country.

During my lifetime I have been a writer, stockbroker, photographer, librarian, banker, mom, counselor, poet, third-shift postal worker, painter, academic psychologist, sister, English teacher, and firefighter. 

Not always at the same time. Not necessarily in that order.

I have had specialized training in various arcane and now sometimes extinct practices including: hypnotherapy, Precious Metals Clay, Gestalt group work, massage therapy, real estate, html, storytelling, existential-humanistic philosophy, Basic, woodworking, and wordsmithing.

I believe in responsible journalism. I took some of the photos on my Blog; if I didn’t, I’ll give credit. Most of the ideas are mine: if they aren’t, I’ll provide you a link. I have more questions than answers, and I hope that comes through in my writing.

Blog Organization: I have been actively exploring  and examining the following five relationships and connections with this thing we call life:

SELF:  Our relations with fear, closure, depression, joy, inspiration, hope, spirituality, death, and self-psychology.

OTHER PEOPLE: Relationships and connections with friends, lovers, family, art, charitable giving.

EARTH: Interconnections with the Earth through simplicity, green living, frugality, animals, and the environment. 

THE BUSINESS OF LIVING (LIFEBIZ): Connections to life through healthy living, stress management, fitness, diet, organization, and lifehacks.

WORDS: Finally, connections found through the words we use in blogging, journaling, writing techniques, quotations, book and video reviews, and Internet resources.

I have organized the Blog posts so that you’ll find these five topics as general categories across the top of each page. 

You can contact me at grace [at] facetothesun [dot] com.

Thanks for reading!