the freedom to try
I remember the first time my firstborn got behind the wheel of a car, his newly minted permit tucked into […]
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I remember the first time my firstborn got behind the wheel of a car, his newly minted permit tucked into […]
Yep, turns out it’s true – it’s hard to be you. The real you. Because who knows who’ll up and […]
Here we are just a few steps into Spring but the ice is still clinging to the eaves, despite the […]
Ever run across a quote that just speaks plain truth? “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of […]
I have this habit that I’m pretty sure my family doesn’t really “get” – I like to re-arrange the furniture […]
What if anything was possible? Really, what if that…was…actually…true? Lots of people say this, that anything is possible. A quick […]
Yeah, so maybe it really is okay to just be…you. To think the way you think, and feel the way […]
You know that little voice inside you? Yeah, the one that won’t let you alone sometimes. Asking when you’re going […]
I know it sometimes doesn’t feel like it. I know that sometimes you can look back on a life and […]
“The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do […]
The only difference between a dream and a goal is a plan that you execute. That last part? The execute […]
I can’t. I don’t know how. It’s too hard. I’m too young. I’m too old. I’m too this-or-that-or-the-other-thing. I’m not […]
Wait for it. It’s sort of what a lot of us are doing, this time of year. It’s sort of […]
Your gifts really do matter to the rest of us. Really. I don’t believe there are any extra people. As […]
You have a gift to share with the world, whether you think you do or not. And the world needs […]
“God, give me guts.” So prayed Eli Mygatt as he defended his hometown of Danbury during the Revolutionary War while […]
“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you that practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their […]
I admit it, I’m one of those people who click on blog posts with titles like “how to find your […]
There is nothing quite like the experience of being told, loudly and in front of the other twenty some-odd people […]
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where […]