blog – sharing the stairs

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 5

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.…

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…

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…

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.…

My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 3

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.…

My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 2

10 Apr 202013 Apr 2020

This is the second 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.…

My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 1

Our daughter is a sophomore in high school. She loves school and all of the things that school has to offer. Friendships. Athletics. Learning- she's never made a B and…

What If…We Focused on the Same Goal

9 Apr 202012 Apr 2020

It was March 13, 2020, when I wrote about my grandmother's experience with the 😷Spanish Flu way back in 1918. I was 📝working on another piece for my weekly Sunday…