Planting For The Future

Planting For The Future

I’d been putting off the task. As I do. But the nights had been pretty cold for the last few weeks; and now, snow was in the forecast. So it needed to be done. Now or never. Planting the daffodil bulbs. The light was low that day. The sky a steel grey. And a...
The Official Author T-Shirt

The Official Author T-Shirt

I know a published writer. She used to live in my town, we were in the moms club together and I feel so proud to have known her before she got published. It’s kind of like knowing a band before they got big… Although I don’t have a t-shirt to prove it. We weren’t...
But I Don’t Know What I’d Do Instead

But I Don’t Know What I’d Do Instead

You feel it. That restless ache. That quiet whisper: There has to be something more. You’ve outgrown your current role, your industry, your identity even…But then the fear creeps in. “I don’t know what I’d do instead.” That thought is enough to stop most people cold....
Fall In Love Again

Fall In Love Again

Most people dread Mondays. It’s a cultural joke—“Ugh, here we go again.”But what if that wasn’t the case? What if you actually looked forward to the week ahead? What if you woke up on Monday morning feeling energized and on purpose? That’s not a fantasy. It’s what...
Before The Clay Hardens

Before The Clay Hardens

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time.  Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. —...