Stories & reflections
A little encouragement for the everyday. Join me for stories, reflections, and lessons from a resilient heart.
After a nostalgic Father’s Day and then rounding the corner of summer this week, I can’t help thinking about another one of my father’s ponderings: the difference between mowing the lawn and cutting the grass. Mowing the lawn…
Read more: Do You Mow the Lawn or Cut the Grass? →I’m not sure who said it first, but I know my father said it often–especially when I’d become impatient and peppered him with questions or pressed him for his opinion about a situation to give me THE answer,…
Read more: A Lesson From My Father →For four days straight, I’d worked nonstop to meet a deadline that I wrote about last week. The morning after I signed the contract, l woke up with what felt like a hangover, even though there had been…
Read more: One Cure for a Deadline Hangover →I wasn’t expecting to sign it. The document had been resting on my desk for three months. I’d hoped to land an agent, a large publisher, and become part of the storied hoopla I’d dreamed about by simply…
Read more: The Clarity of Contracts and Deadlines →As we barrel down the last days of May, I’m reminded that we’re in the season of change, growth, and for me, nostalgic reflection. Four years ago, I joined my son on the cusp of a new adventure.…
Read more: For Those on the Cusp of a New Adventure →It’s been a slow recovery so I’m still looking for ways to make life look a little brighter. After last week’s request for encouraging words, a member of our subscriber family sent me an email with one more sentence…
Read more: One More Sentence of Encouragement to Remember →This week’s reflection is short, but one I hope will prompt you to reach back into your memory and pull down a phrase that’s stuck with you longer than you imagined—a sentence to remember. Here’s what inspired mine.…
Read more: A Sentence to Remember →First published on Nanahood, this week’s inspiration comes from the bold spirit of those bright and exploring eyes. My best—always, Becky (Nana B) What a Baby’s Firsts Can Teach Us A year ago my grandbaby, Blakely Faye, was the…
Read more: What a Baby’s Firsts Can Teach Us →
