Earlier this week, I saw and shared a post on Facebook from a high school in Michigan about their way of honoring the 17 students lost in the Parkland, Florida school shooting a month prior. “They were each given 17 sticky notes to symbolize the […]
Have you ever noticed how life can just cruise along with everything just clicking along. The occasional high. The occasional low. But mostly it just stays steady. And then seemingly out of the blue, as if you’ve hit turbulence in an airplane, its up and […]
We all tend to do a final look back on the previous year and/or a look to the future on December 31st. We count our successes. We analyze our failures. We prepare for whats to come in the next 12 months. As I look back […]
My husband came home today after being on the road for over a month. And he came home to a wife who has had the Christmas Spirit better than she has in years. (Uhm. That would be me, for anyone not following along.) When my […]
I realize as I sit down here to write, I haven’t posted a blog since September. That’s unheard of for me. As someone who at one time journaled daily, to go two and a half months without writing at all just sounds absurd. The fact […]
Last night I angrily wrote out a Facebook post in a notepad app on my phone. I had my husband read it. He said I should go ahead and post it. But just before hitting send, I backed out of it. I wanted time to […]
Mid-June 1997, I rolled across the city limits of Nashville, TN for the first time. I was 16 and my parents and I were about to experience our very first Fan Fair event. I remember commenting at some point that I felt like I was […]
