Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
Don’t hold on to a song. That’s been my motto since I was a ten-year-old-mixed-tape-making, boom-box-loving freckle-faced girl. I spent endless hours in my lemon-yellow room with green carpet, making mixed tapes for people I love. Later, I became a master at burning CDs, which I inserted into fancy covers that I would mail long distances to excited recipients. When…
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Guest Post by Natalie Rebecca Stafford, age 15 I was around four years old when I started asking my mom for “Talk Time.” It was more like Question Time because I always asked her to tell me “something bad” that happened in the world that day. Somehow I knew life was not always like the happy stories I read in…
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“And then I realized that to be more alive I had to be less afraid, so I did it. I lost my fear and gained my whole life.” -Cleo Wade I remember exactly where I was standing when I told my husband that my 14-year-old daughter and I wanted to travel to a foreign continent. Scott reacted just as any…
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“Do the things you always wanted to Without me there to hold you back; don’t think, just do More than anything I want to see you, girl Take a glorious bite out of the whole world.” -Snow Patrol, You Could Be Happy Lately, I’ve been expanding my knowledge on teens. I’d like to write a book to them, or for…
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{This morning, I posted the following piece on social media. My hands were shaking. I can’t remember ever feeling quite so vulnerable. Within a few minutes, there were two comments that indicated my story was her story, and we are not alone. The crack of light I discovered last week suddenly got brighter. As the morning has progressed, the light…
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“I can feel you with me in the darkness Reaching out a hand to pull me through Sadness used to think that it owned me Now sadness has to share me with you.” –Matt Nathanson, Sadness I’ve been holding onto a piece of paper for several weeks—a poem of sorts that I started in August when I was feeling sad…
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Grateful to be part of the #PhelanLucky family and to help spread awareness and support for a resilient group of ki… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Today I spoke at a middle school Career Day. As you can see on the screen, I brought my little dreamer girl with me… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I fell in my garage the other day. The one who came to my side was my teenage daughter, Natalie. I have to admit, p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…