Weekend Challenge Time!!! This weekend the theme is " HUMAN CONNECTION". I am a very quiet person, shy almost. I don't say much, and I certainly do not chit chat with people in public as it terrifies me. I am an outgoing and warm but more introvert than extrovert, so I...

Recently I was asked me to speak at a local retreat on Joy. I went away from the meeting and the request excited for the opportunity, but a bit skeptical and thought “me talk about joy?? What do I really know about joy?, Can I really do this?” Then, as...

Today I had a huge softening of the heart for my mom. Something powerful shifted in me as I saw her as a flawed, imperfect yet powerful woman for the first time. I saw her vulnerability, which showed me her strength. For years I thought she was perfect, I idolized...

Are we all really the same person? A giant person split into tiny pieces much like each of the cells in our own body make up one person. All part of the same one. We love, we fear, and we live and die by our stories, the things we tell...

My husband came home from work today and after the usual “Hello. How was your day,” chit chat, he asked me curiously “Hey, why do you think we were not born in America? We live here, our kids are American, it is our home. Why were we not born here?...