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Living Beyond Our Challenges

Challenge sounds so much more manageable than struggle.  And when we’re in it, we need all the help we can receive. We may go through phases when we fragment daily, only to piece ourselves together enough to repeat the cycle the next day.  You’ve been there, you know what I mean.  Thankfully, these cycles aren’t permanent.  But […]

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Grace Under Attack Forges A Warrior

Just as I was going to bed last night I got a phone call.  The woman on the other end called me by name, gushed about how it’s been ten long years since she’s been in town, and when she finally identified herself I still was fuzzy on why I was getting this call.  Then […]

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To the Woman Who Stopped Me in the Hair Products Aisle Yesterday

To you: the wonderful stranger who, acknowledging that we didn’t know each other and would likely never again cross paths, asked my opinion on the box of hair color you were considering. Please know that I gave the auburn color portrayed on the box thoughtful attention, along with your complexion and ponytailed brunette hair, before giving my resounding […]

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The Speed of Change is Now

Are you ready, hesitatingly or otherwise, for a little positive shake-up in your life?  Is there something you are looking forward to one day?  Does this resonate with you: one day I will write, one day I will have a job I love, one day I will paint, one day I will be happy? The speed of […]

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Surrender Past the Flow

For a while now I have been mindfully practicing going with the flow, allowing, and not forcing directing acting like I’m in charge so much.  My life, sanity, and peace have improved, I highly recommend it! I’ve learned that it doesn’t mean I give up responsibility or direction, it means I show up for life and […]

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