I find it interesting {and a little disturbing} that I’ve been having a hard time waking up lately…{as in, ever since I decided to bring up the topic of wake-up…
Speaking of time and wake-up calls lately...nothing awakens the heart quite like the first signs of spring. It's the perfect cure for the winter-weary soul...the season that has a way of…
Time is fleeting. It’s been said for eons, I know. It’s been true for eons. Life really is short. And I’m sounding the alarm again this week, because there’s not a…
Waking up can be a slow process for some of us. Even with an alarm blaring in the background. {Or in our gut.} Whether it’s external or internal, we don’t…
I was planning to continue the topic of acceptance this week, but a little voice inside seemed to be saying, “Say it isn’t so…” so I decided on Calvin and Hobbes instead. A…
Life is full of unacceptable things. Awful things that should never happen. Painful things we don’t want to be true. And the sooner we accept it, the better. Sounds a…
Life changes and transitions are exciting...and challenging. A mixed bag of emotions for most of us...and with all the coming and going at the ACTS homes lately, we're very aware…
The two most significant seasons of my adult life each spanned a period of three years, and changed my life in ways I never knew were possible. The first thousand-day-period…
Quitting isn’t always a bad thing, you know. In fact, sometimes it’s a really good thing. A necessary thing. Winners quit things in order to win. Quitters become winners all…
I used to hate winter. Especially January. For many years. And I absolutely refused to believe I could feel differently about it. Hate it I did, and hate it I would...'til my dying…