Maybe exhaustion is not a curse but a kind of evidence. Proof that I have shown up. Proof that I have poured out effort, love, energy, and presence. Proof that I have lived.
A Mind Shift
Tag: writing
Questions for Your Kids
The kids are home! Summer is Here! With that in mind, I've created a list of questions, I like to use to get to know someone on a deeper level. This is the times when you have a sunny porch and lemonade. Or a hammock and an afternoon. Maybe it is windshield time on the [...]
JOY
Ms. Joy, she was tall. Everything about her was so very, very tall. Everything about her seemed larger than life. I was a tiny, freckled, second grade, shrimp that looked more like a sticky popsicle stick back then. But she, ...oh she was everything I ever dreamed. I wanted to be her. She had a [...]
Readers make Writers
I've heard it said before that people who read are also people who write. Basically, if you are a reader you are also someone who puts pen to paper and thoughts to scribble. If this thought is correct than in my case, it is absolutely true. I Fell head over heels in love with stories [...]
Friday Free Draw
I came home from a work trip to find hand picked flowers and colored pictures of little tiny fashion dolls with hearts and flowers on it. Giant yellow suns with slashes of yellow streaming out of the paper. Inside each (yes - there was more than one) 8×11 folded paper were notes of love and [...]
Letters To My Children
Dear Kids, We have been praying for you and over you since before you were born. This collection of words that I am about to share are some of the prayers we have prayed and continue to pray over you on an ongoing basis. I am sharing this so that you and others will know [...]
For the Love of Books and Relationships
I heard once that 82% of the world has at least one book idea, some have many more. Only 20% of people move past that phase and go on to the next. To write it and to publish. I am one of those stats. When we first started on this journey, we never [...]
50 Goals and Ideas to Inspire
I love the featured picture for this blog because this is my daughter overlooking the water and even though you can't see it on her face you know she is dreaming really big! I'm here blogging today to say, Make big dreams! And then write them down!! Keep them visible and look at them often! [...]
Contribution
"There's a billion people on the planet. I mean what does any one life really mean?" - Quote from the movie, Shall We Dance For many of us the struggle and feelings of creating ripples and impact in our world with so many faces and so many things can be haunting and a driving force [...]
In a Nutshell
Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my song. And he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, this is my Father’s God, and I will exalt him. I have actually been working on a much longer version of my story. To obey Psalms 78: 6-7 in a literal [...]
Creating Exceptional 
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