I was brave today! My son had a play date at the park with one of his good buddies while I sat on a bench hanging out with the other...

Spring is in the air! The sun is shining, birds are singing, and pollen-coated cars stand ready for the next grand adventure. I love this...

I think about her now more than I imagined possible on those days when I allowed my envy of her gifts to overshadow my enjoyment of them.

A few months ago, I wrote a post about the power of words and the importance of speaking powerful words over my situation. I felt really...

Yesterday, a new acquaintance said that I have “Disney Princess hair.” Wow, that was a first! I’ve been sitting with those words for...

What’s more fun than imagining what you would do with the money if you suddenly won the lottery? I’m talking Powerball here. So many...

I read recently that fear is not rational or irrational, it is simply relative. It's a good perspective, as lately I have been pondering...

Have you ever seen that old Wendy’s commercial with three little old ladies inspecting a large hamburger bun only to find a teeny, tiny...

Have you ever played whack-a-mole? It’s that arcade game with lots of holes with “moles” in them that will pop their heads up at random...

I’m not feeling especially deep today. To tell you the truth, I just feel tired. I have talked about this processing experience as doing...

I was talking to my Dad recently about quarantine and going out. He made a comment that going out not was ‘not for old people right now,’...

“I don’t look like what I’ve been through, and neither do you.” I heard a pastor say those words many years ago and they struck me so...

I suppose part three of this story could be called “the wig years.” Sigh. I have put off writing this part of the story, but there’s...

Yesterday was awesome. My family went for our first ever trail ride on mountain bikes, and we had such a blast! I never knew that...

“Easier said than done.” How often have you heard that? I’ve said it myself many times, but I don’t really reflect much on its truth...

I love history. Family history especially. One of my very favorite hobbies is going through old family letters and documents with my dad...

When I was in grad school I took a course that was all about journaling. Personal journaling, professional journaling, journaling for...

Have you ever wished for “change me” pill that would let you wake up feeling, acting, and behaving completely differently the day after...

My husband and I find ourselves repeatedly teaching our son that “words are powerful.” When he says he can’t do something, we talk about...

Do you ever come up against force fields in your life? I do all the time, and I’m not always sure which ones are “real” and which I have...

At the end of the day, don’t we all want our suffering to mean something? Great or small, we want to know that our difficulties were for...

Control is a funny topic when it concerns alopecia, as it comes and goes at the oddest times and is so totally outside of a person’s...

How do you break your life story into segments? By year? Location? What you were doing? In my case I think we should call the next major...

My dad often quotes the Quaker theologian Elton Trueblood, who once said to “live your life in chapters.” This phrase really resonates...