You know, when you look into starting a blog there are all kinds of websites out there that have advice for how to run your blog. You have to post so many times a week/month. You have to post only about things in your niche. What is your niche? You have to decide what your…
Power Plays One of the truest tests of someone's character is how they handle any power that is given to them. Some people use it to get what they want. They bully. They coerce. They blame. They take advantage of anything and everything their position of power presents. They are focused on making a difference…
I've never had a good relationship with my body. I haven't had an eating disorder. I wasn't a child beauty pageant contestant. I didn't participate in any sort of extracurricular activity that you would think could lead to issues with my body. Rather, I was raised in a very conservative Christian home. We talked about…
I love tea. It all started with the peppermint tea my mom gave me as a baby to calm my tummy. I stuck mainly to herbal tea until I was through college. I made it through college without coffee! That's because caffeine was a thing that we just didn't do. It was one of those…
When I was 10, we moved into an apartment that had a gas furnace in the floor between the bedroom I shared with my sister and my brother's bedroom. There was no door. Just a curtain. And that furnace made all kinds of noise, especially at night. I don't think I dreamed about fire or…
I was listening to a great book last week. I listened to it first last year. It's just one of those books that deserve another listen and several more read-throughs, which is why I purchased a used copy. It's called Super You: Release Your Inner Superhero. Now, before you turn up your nose at it…
This hasn't been an easy summer. I feel raw emotionally. I've lost three uncles in the last two months. I've celebrated the anniversaries of the deaths of three grandparents. I've been places where these people should have been, where they were loved, where they were expected--places where they shone. And I've heard about people getting…
Picture this: You're on holiday (I think it's much more fun saying holiday than vacation) in Scotland and you've always wanted to visit Loch Ness. Maybe you'll catch a glimpse of Nessie. So you take a lake cruise. And when you're in the middle of the cruise--the middle of the loch--you fall overboard. The water…
I'm an introvert. I'm a highly sensitive person. I love baseball. And since I currently live only 2 hours from my favorite team, I like to go to a couple of games every year. And we went yesterday. The fan in me loves it. The introvert in me has a hard time with it. The…
There was a Star Wars marathon on TV Memorial Day Weekend—the original ones (Episodes IV-VI). Typically, my Memorial Day Weekend TV watching consists of war movies or John Wayne movies or John Wayne war movies. I needed a change this year. So, I picked fictional space battles instead of non-fiction earth battles. Though “The Longest…