Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
I’ve never thought so much about left-hand turns in my life… until now. My 16-year-old daughter recently got her driver’s license and transports herself to and from swim practices, school meetings, and the grocery store. We talked at length about the tricky left turn she’d have to make leaving the swim center and the one she’d make entering our neighborhood. …
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I was standing in my kitchen on March 1, 2019 wondering how I was going to get through the writing of chapter three when Scott sent me a song that was just released. (Scott has an uncanny way of sending me the exact song I need, precisely when I need it.) The song was called, ‘Mess,’ and this is what I…
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“We are not good at anything when we first start,” Scott said at the dinner table in response to Avery cringing as she recited the lyrics to the first song she ever wrote. “Yeah, like driving!” Natalie chimed in, laughing. At the time, she was averaging 15 mph in empty parking lots at dusk… still figuring out which direction the…
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When I was pregnant with my daughter Natalie, I shifted from a long-time role in special education to teach a classroom of precious first graders. Oh, how I loved those children – especially after lunch and recess when I sat down in the rocking chair and read picture books out loud to calm and settle them. On Fridays, as a…
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“To dare is to lose one’s footing; To not dare is to lose one’s self.” Soren Kierkegaard I’ve always thought I was someone who doesn’t like to leave her two-mile radius. I’ve always believed I was happier when close to what’s familiar. But as I looked through the 2018/2019 photo albums my mom made our family for Christmas, I realized…
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I noticed it immediately. Exactly four weeks ago, three massive letters appeared next to the road near the round-about that I travel multiple times a day. The three letters were: J-O-Y, and each letter lit up for about three seconds, until all at once, the whole word lit up. The first time I drove by, I only got to see…
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