Daily Thoughts
A Safe Place in the World
Because I know I can sometimes spend too much time mindlessly scrolling through different social media feeds, I try my best to limit how often I let myself open the different apps on my phone, especially if I’m working on something like writing or if my girls and I...
Still Chasing Monsters Away
Apparently, when I was a little kid going to bed at night, one of my parents—usually my mom—had to come into my room with me, inspect beneath the covers, and smack the bedcovers along the bottom of my bed to kill the lobsters I was convinced were hiding in my bed...
Love Is Seeing Them Smile
I remember when I was growing up there was a syndicated single-panel cartoon titled, Love Is…featuring a young woman and a young man illustrating whatever the simple caption described about love. As I recalled that comic, I looked up its origin and discovered the...
Moments Like These Are Powerful
After what was a considerably busy week for us with us being out of the house just about every day, it was nice to welcome the first of the final two days of this holiday weekend knowing we had nothing on our calendar for the day. I tend to look forward to these kinds...
Joey Doesn’t Share Food
From the first moment the Friends character Joey (played by Matt LeBlanc) first uttered those words—Joey doesn’t share food—my husband and I have used them as a familiar refrain for me. It doesn’t matter if we are out to eat or here at home, or (and maybe especially)...
The Sleep of the Teens
After we had our girls, I began to wonder why it is we respond to the question regarding how we slept last night with the phrase, I slept like a baby because I came to understand that babies do not tend to sleep through the night. In fact, they are not supposed to...
Whispers in the Distance
Do you recall your teenage years? I don’t know about you, but mine definitely had moments that can be described as tumultuous. The journey of the teenage years is fraught with such moments, those times when we need to determine where we begin apart from our parents....
It Always Comes Back to Love
If a stranger ever walks into our house in the mid-morning hours, they might think they’ve stepped into Waffle House or iHop or another popular breakfast spot. While I don’t wear a uniform, I do tend to take my place in front of our stove like a short-order cook with...
A Dash of Fun
For many years I have followed a writer and speaker, Jon Acuff, whose books and talks focus not only on setting goals, but on actually achieving them. For some of those years I participated in several of Jon’s webinars and Facebook groups and both were filled with...