Stories & reflections
A little encouragement for the everyday. Join me for stories, reflections, and lessons from a resilient heart.
This week’s inspiration comes from my yard and a new appreciation I have for one very tall pine tree. In the late fall of last year, I thought this beautiful tree was dying. I’d just finished removing a…
Read more: A Lesson on Discernment from My Pine Tree →This week’s inspiration comes from Gretchen Rubin, a self-proclaimed happiness expert. I love to steal her ideas, so workable and real, whenever possible! Perhaps her advice resonated with me because of this lingering bout with Miss URI that…
Read more: Beating the Blahs →This week’s inspiration comes from my “stretchy” friends. It was supposed to be a week filled with “catching up” conversations. Christmas was tucked away and I was ready to fill the empty nest with time and tales from…
Read more: The Fabric of Friendship →This week’s inspiration comes from my friend, author, and leadership coach extraordinaire Mary Ann “Skipper” Singer. In her Leadership Tip this month, Skipper shares a strategy for bringing our dreams to life. Here’s what she learned: The WOOP…
Read more: Permission to Dream and WOOP →This week’s inspiration comes from my family. Most of us have moved through what could be called the season of family: the holidays. It is a time of high expectations, steadfast traditions, and hopscotch travel plans that often…
Read more: The Eight Words That Got Me Through the Holidays →It’s that time again. Time to pick a one-word theme that can inspire me every day in the coming year. I deemed last year as the year of the SPARKLE. I believe that we all sparkle in different…
Read more: My Small New Year’s Theme →This week’s inspiration comes from my father’s story about the power of our memories, published Sunday in my Looking Homeward column at The Herald-Dispatch (below). My father’s favorite wingback chair pictured above is now in my library. I…
Read more: On Thrilling: What my Father’s Story Taught Me →This week’s inspiration is short, but deep—at least for me. It comes from a reference to C. S. Lewis, one of my favorite writers and thinkers. Last week at church, Pastor Andy reminded us about Lewis’s writings on…
Read more: The Sting of Joy →
