On Stickers and Stories

I had an hour before I had to pick up my daughter from school, so I was leisurely perusing the aisles at Target. Having chaperoned her class trip to a pet store that morning, I needed a little grownup solitude before beginning the rest of my day. I discovered some...

Learning to Jump

When my daughter was a little over a year old, she decided that it was time to learn to jump.  She had been walking – and doing something that vaguely resembled running – for a couple of months, but she had never taken the leap, per se, to begin jumping. ...

Finding My Voice

I wrote yesterday about my lifelong love of writing, and how it has evolved to where I am today. It’s part of a dream I have…a wild and crazy dream that I believe with all my heart has been embedded into me by no one but my Creator. It is only a part of...

Signs of Life

I’m in a weird place right now. It’s a new place, and while I’m excited about things, I’m not altogether sure I like it here or know what to do. I feel a little like I’m running up the downward escalator, trying so hard to make things...

Not By Myself (31 Days of Balance – Day 16)

It’s easily one of the hardest things you could ask me to do.  I would do a million other things – likely destroying myself in the process – before I could take the plunge and do it.  No matter how long I think about it, I cannot develop a scenario...