Hello Sweet Readers! Oh, how I hope that your Thanksgiving was a grand time of food, family, friends mixed up with a whole lot of memories. I'm trusting you have much to be thankful for and this holiday just added more to that life category. I was a little under the weather last week and missed a couple of days of work. I got a couple of meds and was feeling more chipper by Thanksgiving Day. We did our volunteer gig and decided that next year we need to up our game on that day by staying ... Continue Reading...

Yay, for Thanksgiving Week! When I was teaching this was a favorite week because we were off of school. It was such a great time to be with loved ones around the table eating turkey with all the trimmings and then get it gear for Christmas. One of the perks I definitely miss from the world of education. But regardless, yay that this week has arrived and it's a short one on the work calendar. I hope this post finds you gearing up to embrace all of the holiday with its moments of overeating ... Continue Reading...

Well, I love how life just happens sometimes. You know how things just come together and the light bulb goes on and something makes complete sense. Those have been happening to me more and more lately. For me, I know it is the Lord working my life and my heart. That makes me super excited for every single day because I know something is happening. Which brings me to today and what I'm busting at the seams to share with you. Travel with me to the day I attended an ALIGN workshop to help me ... Continue Reading...

Tomorrow is the day. One of those days that children wait for anxiously to come to fruition. By now, they have their costume picked out and are ready to head out of the door to get as much candy as possible. At least that is how I remember it from my childhood. But I cannot say the same thing for my daughter. You see for years I was on a Halloween boycott of sorts. It's a little long and complicated so I'll spare the details of how my religious ideas crossed that day off the calendar for ... Continue Reading...

Hello, Sweet Readers! I hope this post finds you on Monday gearing up for another week... Words. I love words. Back in the day of hard back dictionaries, I would sit and turn the pages and just read words. Words have meanings and meanings are not necessarily neutral. How words are used can build up or tear down. They can grow great things in a person or not. Words create a narrative and words help to define you and me. Have you thought about the narrative that generally runs through your ... Continue Reading...

Friends, I know you know about what's been happening in Texas. The magnitude of the destruction and barrage of images revealing the enormity of the suffering is heartbreaking. Truly, I love Texas! It is not my place of birth nor my first home but I can't image living any place else while I'm moving and breathing this side of Heaven. This week I have been touched by the outpouring of my fellow Texans as they came to the rescue of their neighbors. Tragedy has a way of making the playing field ... Continue Reading...