About

Hi, I’m Dana.

At 53, I packed up my car, grabbed my little dog, and drove from Tennessee to the Washington coast for a ten-month teaching assignment.

Not because I had a carefully constructed reinvention plan. I did not.

Live Life Randomly is where I document what happens when a grown woman stops waiting for the perfect time, takes the side quest, and figures out the details somewhere along the way.

Expect coastal wandering, cooking for one, road-trip detours, honest observations, accidental adventures, and the occasional “what the actual hell am I doing?” moment.

This isn’t a guide to having life figured out. Clearly.

It’s about building a life that feels like yours—even when the route there makes absolutely no sense on paper.