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 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 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.…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized What If…We Don’t Try to Steer 2 Apr 20205 Apr 2020 You might think I'm one of those people who rolls with the punches. There are times that is true, for sure. Not always, though. The big 😀smile hides my tendency…
Uncategorized What If…Peace is Still Here 25 Mar 20205 Apr 2020 "In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." ~Deepak Chopra The days are starting to run together.😬 I have to pause and think about what day…
Uncategorized What If…We Work Together? 20 Mar 20206 Jun 2020 These last few days have been a 🎢rollercoaster ride. I don't need to tell you that. The scariest thing is that we can't get off. It's like we had a…
Uncategorized What If…We Respect the Science 13 Mar 20206 Jun 2020 My grandmother's sister went to a birthday 🎂 party way back in the year 1918. This was the same year as the 😷Spanish Flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 20-50…
Uncategorized What If…We Took That Risk? 15 Feb 202016 Feb 2020 There's a line in my self-help book that goes like this: While I realize that I am most definitely in my own way, I continue to find it difficult to move…
Uncategorized What If…Everyone Cheered for Something? 1 Feb 20202 Feb 2020 It's been a whole lot of fun to jump onto my social media accounts over the past couple of weeks. Missourians are 🎉loud and proud for the Chiefs. The fans…
Uncategorized What If…We Made Lemonade 24 Jan 202026 Jan 2020 A friend of mine was handed some 🍋lemons this week. The kind of 🍋lemons that make it pretty challenging to make lemonade. The kind of 🍋lemons that make you want…
Uncategorized What If…We Remembered to Say Thank You 19 Jan 202019 Jan 2020 I'm big on the idea of saying the words. 💖THANK YOU! I say thank you to my husband when he 🍽cooks dinner. He's a much better cook than I am,…
Uncategorized Downsizing- Part 2 10 Jan 2020 If you ever decide to move over the holiday season, bless you! If you ever decide to move from a house where you lived for 17 years at the same…
Uncategorized New Year, New Decade, New YOU 1 Jan 2020 Happy New Year! Happy New Decade! Can you believe that it's 2020? As a kid, I couldn't imagine the year 2020. I was born in 1963. Just the 2000s seemed…
Uncategorized Self-Care Sunday: Spend Time with People You Love 28 Dec 201929 Dec 2019 Ever since our oldest daughter did an internship after college graduation at Disney World in ☀️Orlando, we have been spending Christmas in the Most Magical Place on 🌎Earth. That first…
