Category: thoughts
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Can You Hear It?
Reflections on Losing a Sports Hero Can you hear it? Look around the world this week. Nothing much has changed for the majority of us. We get up and go to work. We drop kids off at school or practice. Make dinner. Walk dogs. Pay bills. It’s all basically the same. It’s late January, so…
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Please, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” – Mr. Rogers Do you remember childhood television, before the days of school and stress? In the 70s, my days were simple. We lived on a big…
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The Power of a 10-Minute Meltdown
I’m sure you can relate. Likely there is too much on your plate right now. Life seems like a crazy balancing act. There’s barely enough room for a few moments with people you love. While there may be a lot of good, no, great things happening, there are limited moments to stop, take a breath…
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The first half of 2018…what the heck does it mean to be healthy anyway?
It’s hard to stay healthy in certain seasons of life – isn’t it? To me, May is right up there with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Super Bowl. In our home, it’s a month that is filled with birthdays, Mother’s Day, graduation parties, sports-viewings (so many sports), end of school events, city festivals…the list goes on…
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The Valentine’s Day / Ash Wednesday Collision
Ash Wednesday is tomorrow, and it lands on Valentine’s Day. I’ve seen a bit of chatter online, trying to help young couples and parents maneuver this interesting matchup of the pop culture calendar and the church calendar. While it’s not the most earth-shattering parallel in the history of history, the last time these 2 lined…
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The struggle is real…and bad days are just part of life.
It’s been a hard day. Sometimes the struggle is real. While our brains know that first world problems are just that, they are still problems. They still make our days more complicated than we would like. The car is running weird. We accidentally pour decaf in our cup. Kids are sick, projects build up, checks…
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Food as a Love Language
I’m a foodie. I love shopping for food, preparing food, serving food. It’s creative, it’s calming. And on a day when I need to feel like I have closure on something, ANYTHING, building a fantastic meal from start to finish can often set my mind at ease. I’m somewhat confident that when Dr. Gary Chapman…
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Day 8 – 4 Easy Hacks for a Better 2018
This year has started a little rocky. As I mentioned before, I got sick on January 2. Welcome 2018! Don’t mind me….I’ll be over here buried in Kleenex and cough drop wrapped! And then my husband got sick. It was inevitable. I know. (Insert joke about what happens when men get sick here…) So I’ve…
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Day 5 – Has anyone seen my kleenex?
Day 4 of #my500word challenge —- Colds and more colds. (this blog is part of a writing challenge, where it’s more about writing than editing…apologies for grammar errors.) I need to start writing down a few ideas for what to write about each morning in this #My500Word challenge. That might be a better option…
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Recovering a Calling…
Calling – it’s an interesting thing, isn’t it? When I was young I had probably too many callings. Music, school, travel, ministry, writing, work, relationships. I’ve always been a bit ADD, so all of these little pieces added up to me being a bit of a jack of all trades. And I loved it. I’m…