Uncategorized What If…Silence is Golden 17 Jul 202018 Jul 2020 When I was sharing a college dorm room with my bud from junior high, we had very different ideas of what we considered to be appropriate noise levels when 📚studying.…
Uncategorized Buy a Book/Give to Charity 17 Jul 202017 Jul 2020 Hey there! My son, Zane, and I are overwhelmed by the love for our new children's book on Amazon. The Bored Book was such a fun collaboration project for us.…
Uncategorized What If…We Choose Not to Be Bored 11 Jul 202011 Jul 2020 When we were in the lockdown phase of this 😷pandemic, I was thanking my lucky ✨stars that I didn't have small children at home anymore. Don't get me wrong. I…
Uncategorized What If…They Tell Your Story 3 Jul 20204 Jul 2020 The Hamilton film came out this weekend.🌟 If you're a super-fan like I am, you've been waiting for this. If you're wondering why this is such a big deal, have…
Uncategorized Let’s Try to See the Forest 29 Jun 202029 Jun 2020 So, I wrote about choosing sides recently. I talked about how the world seems to make a sport of choosing sides and how we should really work to learn from…
Uncategorized What If…It’s Not About Choosing Sides? 26 Jun 202028 Jun 2020 When I was a kid, I was always the last one to be chosen for any activity in gym class. I understood why. If you needed to ⚾️catch, throw or…
Uncategorized What If…We Do Better? 20 Jun 202020 Jun 2020 I have a pet peeve.😞 I can't stand it when I pour out my heart from fear or frustration or disappointment only to have my listener say, "I know exactly…
Uncategorized What If…You Create a New Habit? 9 Jun 202013 Jun 2020 Things have been pretty heavy 😢lately- and they should be. There's some critical work to do in this 🌎world with race relations and living through the pandemic. The quote on…
Uncategorized What It…We Listen 3 Jun 20207 Jun 2020 When I wrote my 📚book (LIFEGUARD- available on Amazon), I dedicated a few sections to 💖kindness. In one chapter, I told a story about an encounter with a woman during…
Uncategorized Maya Angelou Knew 3 Jun 20203 Jun 2020 I don't need to add any other words to this post. Maya Angelou knew what to say. If you're searching for the WHY during this tumultuous time, look to her…
Uncategorized What If…This Year Didn’t Feel Cursed? 30 May 202031 May 2020 2020 hasn't been the year that many of us hoped it would be so far. There's been a lot to process. 😢This past week, I watched the video of a…
Uncategorized What if…We Remember to be Grateful? 23 May 202023 May 2020 It's effortless to complain, isn't it? 😞Sometimes, that grumbling reaction is the first one to the surface. As the saying goes- been there, done that. Some days seem to have…
Uncategorized What If…We Start to Reopen Ourselves? 15 May 202017 May 2020 Is anybody else getting weary? 😟Are there others who crave conversations that don't involve the C-word? Anyone else tired of being surprised by another person sharing conspiracy theories? How about…
Uncategorized What If…We Keep Learning? 8 May 202010 May 2020 It has been NINE weeks😳 since I first started to understand that life was about to shift. The news of this faraway virus wasn't so abstract anymore. We started to…
Uncategorized What If…Love Never Fails 2 May 20203 May 2020 A friend recently asked for my favorite Bible verse. She was putting together a 🎁gift for her daughter's confirmation. A Pinterest project at its finest. The idea was to highlight…
Uncategorized My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 5 29 Apr 2020 This is the fifth diary entry written by my teenage daughter. For a virtual history class assignment, students are asked to write about the experience of living through a pandemic.…
Uncategorized What If…We Spend This Time Thinking 17 Apr 202025 Apr 2020 What if we keep doing our 🌟best? I posed that question last Sunday. What does that mean to you? What is our 🌟best? Your 🌟best? My 🌟best? I felt that…
Uncategorized What If…We Just Keep Doing Our Best 17 Apr 202019 Apr 2020 I don't really have some big picture post this week with connections to life and 💪health and 😍happiness. Honestly, I'm doing the same thing you're doing- just getting through this…
Uncategorized My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 4 14 Apr 202021 Apr 2020 This is the fourth diary entry written by my teenage daughter. For a virtual history class assignment, students are asked to write about the experience of living through a pandemic.…
Uncategorized My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 3 13 Apr 2020 This is the third diary entry written by my teenage daughter. For a virtual history class assignment, students are asked to write about the experience of living through a pandemic.…
