I've been sitting here working on thank you notes for over an hour. As my pen slides across the page checking another name off of the list I cannot help but become excruciatingly aware of how inadequate my words are. I'm sitting at my desk in...
Beauty, weight, and "size" are all subjects often banging around the walls of our home. I try to keep my body self-talk as positive as I possible. Honest, real, and filled with grace for this beautiful body I have been given. Sometimes though I come up short....
Hey yo. I've been writing all day long. And by all day I, of course, mean for a couple of hours. Lesson learned: trying to put each important detail of your story into coherent, fluid, eloquent black and white words is freaking hard. Maybe I should...
{If you can finish the line of that lyric in the title and name the movie it is from--you win a prize.} ~~~~~~~ I want to know how you're showing up in your world. How are you being seen? What are you doing to love big yourself and...
It's been pretty hot and heavy around here. So I thought I'd spread a little happy. Happy A} I graduate in 2 days!!! It's kind of a big deal. And by kind of I mean HUGE deal. I truly never thought I would make it to...
I feel the cool concrete hard beneath my back. Bumpy rocks press in against my feet through my flip flops, their straps straining against the tops of my toes. The wind blows and I feel it dance over the bridges of my feet and tug...
Today a woman--and by woman I mean a friend whom I was helping out, not a random stranger on the skreet--handed me her American Express card, military id, a list of errands to run and walked me out the door. She chimed as I left,...
“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too...
Coping skills...
