Strengthening Your Steps
*article written for Judi Moreo's personal growth/development publication, "Choices" When considering life's journey, it helps to think of myself ascending a spiral staircase. This visual reminds me that there are steps behind, steps still ahead, and that anything I'm circling around once more is allowing me to look upon a situation with more knowledge and experience than I once held. A wise woman told me to "give yourself permission to be in process." When we let ourselves n
Eden: A Reflection
Do you want to live out of fear or love? It's become the guiding question of my life, and I'm grateful for it. I know which one wins as I pick up the pen and share a reflection on February 5, 2018, the day we were supposed to meet our third child. Why fear at all, you might ask? Because I have friends and family who have lost much more than a baby whose heart stopped beating at 9 weeks 4 days old, and I don't want to for a minute have them thinking that I am placing our loss
Forgiveness Opens A Door
Traveling seems to elude me now that I’m busy raising two little kids ages five-and-a-half and four. But I have a backlog of trips that left a sweet aftertaste, so much so that I can practically take myself to clear Caribbean seas or to the rainy Scottish highlands for a few minutes. As much as I treasure these trips for the glimpse of “otherworldliness,” the trip that means the most to me only lasted four days. It was no vacation; in fact, the reason we assembled this past F
