Hot Dog! It’s Gonna Be a Great Day!

I have great friends.  I’m not just saying that, either.  The Lord graciously put the most incredible people in my life and I could spend hours writing about them.  But Danna is the kind of person that everyone should have in their life.  She is the most genuinely cheerful person I have ever met.  She [...]

The Response I Guess I Deserve

Dear DeAnn
I am in receipt of your letter of June 20th. Of course I was surprised to hear from you at the time and I have thought much of what you have said. Although it pained me, I realized that you truly had been using me. But now I want to tell [...]

Quote to Keep Me Going

Thanks to my cute niece Heather for this quote.  I needed it today.
“How does one become a butterfly?  You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpiller.”

Is Food My Drug of Choice?

Below is part of an article I came across today by Geneen Roth.  It struck a chord with me.  Today I’m going to savor things in my life – including food.
For most of us, food isn’t allowed to be itself: a source of pleasure, joy, nourishment. Instead, food is the middleman between feeling something we [...]

The “after” before the “after”

I was thin(ner) once.  But I was young and immature, unlike my current mature dignified state of being.  It’s fun to look BACK at photo’s of yourself and think “I looked fantastic” (and remember at the time I still didn’t think I did.)  But the fact is — I’m not moving backward in time.  I [...]