Hot coffee splashes onto my crisp, clean white shirt as I walk down our stairs bear-gripping each tot under an arm while juggling a chipped porcelain mug in my hand. I know it is a precarious feat to attempt, and silently curse our split level house every chaotic morning. But this particular morning, I was feeling…
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Have you ever noticed that “dream big” sayings sound really good… and then they may make you a little depressed and anxious? No? Just me? I ran across this one today… “When you cease to dream, you cease to live” (Malcom Forbes). Ummm excuse me? In total Clueless fashion, I feel compelled to respond……
There is one subject I never write about really… although, it is the subject that occupies my heart and mind all the time. God. Why? Well… for a few reasons. One, I don’t concretely understand “God” or what that means. Human, spirit, feeling… all three? The abstract can be mind boggling. Secondly, I don’t attach…
Once upon a time my heart and mind would fill with this budding hope right around the turn of the New Year. Ritualistic and methodical, I would carefully pull out a beautiful leather journal with crisp new pages intentionally weathered, imitating a wise whimsy allure I always fell victim to. My fingers would tingle with…
Sitting outside on a patio slowly drinking a steaming cup of coffee (that is actually hot) and a mimosa with my favorite man, soaking up a hint of sun in the grey skies that marked our belated honeymoon, I got the irresistible urge to phone my two-year-old daughter just to hear her voice. Babble babble…
Have you ever felt a dream to be impossible? Not so much because of the magnitude of the dream, but rather the personal probability? I have. I do. All the time. BUT. There was a time not too long ago that many things in my life felt like improbable dreams. This was a lesson…