On August 23rd, 2003 it was 110 degrees. Everyone in attendance at our wedding likely remembers how doggone hot it was because our church didn’t (and still doesn’t) have air conditioning. The day ended, however, with some rain and my husband getting shit on by a bird on his shoulder. Supposedly, rain (and getting shit… Read More
It’s Complicated At an average rate of 80 times a minute, the (complex and complicated) heart beats about 115,000 times in one day or 42 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 3 billion times — pumping an amount of blood that equals about 1 million… Read More
Two Seasons of Motherhood & 12 Lessons Learned School has been out for my three kiddos since mid-May. It usually takes me at least a month to get into the swing of a different schedule, or lack thereof is more like it. Case-in-point, last week life got a little cray-cray, and I didn’t get a… Read More
Be Brave to Love We all have an abundance of love available to us – to give and to receive. If only we’d have the courage to let more of it in and out and be bravely vulnerable to it. I love this quote by John McCain, mentioned by his co-author, Mark Salter, in an interview… Read More
If you’re a parent or guardian and don’t feel emotionally and mentally overwhelmed on any given day raising children today, then I need some of what you have. And likely, so do 99.9% of other parents and guardians. It seems you can’t turn on the news these days without hearing another disturbing story involving children. Sadness… Read More
Vera Blue | Hold *Album cover image courtesy of Genius.com Atwood Magazine has the perfect description of this song: “Hold” is a celebration; it represents that moment when you realize you have someone in your corner that will fight for you, even when you can’t bring yourself to do so. I think of Hold… Read More
It’s amazing to me how much our thought process and minds rule over our bodies. I don’t think anyone can disagree that stress has a negative impact on our bodies. Our bodies respond to stress in various ways – headaches, digestive issues, insomnia, high blood pressure, weight gain, physical pain…you name it. Have these issues long enough on a… Read More
Today’s post comes from a place of sadness within my heart – for the direction we’re going as a society. I prefer Instagram as my go-to for social media as Facebook has become a sess-pool of negativity over time. Today, I read a post on IG by an author I admire, who shared an illustration… Read More