Journey Updates

Old notes that still ring true <3
Last year I attended a writer’s conference in Colorado; as you may remember if you read this regularly. At the opening session, the conference developer and facilitator Tricia Lott Williford said you can write a book ten minutes at a time. I often remind myself that on this little space of the internet we call…

Wisdom for a Rainy Day…or Any Day <3
We are having some much needed rain here today and I grabbed an umbrella out of the trunk for some errands I was running. It made me think about Proverbs and wisdom and how life has a way of teaching us through trial and error. And misery and humiliation. Those are good teachers, my friends,…

Monday check in <3
We had a wonderful weekend full of all kinds of moments to fill the heart. Saturday was particularly special as we went to St. Louis at the invitation of this sweet girl…who wanted to treat me to a Mother’s Day party. She always thinks about what people would like and she certainly made our visit…

Those last times get you … every time <3
Hope you all who live in the Midwest are enjoying the warmth and sunshine we have been wishing would come. Apparently we do get far more than we ask for…yikes…it’s been like August here in God’s country and we are all wilting. Last night while the older two grands had soccer practice, I took the…

Thursday Randomness….
For some reason I am a day off and I don’t even have a holiday to blame. So I am throwing out some randoms and hoping for an extra Friday since I seem to missing a day and Fridays are always fun. #1 I have decided that even though the seasons are capricious at best…

A wise word from one of you…and I am so very thankful <3
I received a comment from one of you lovely people that just spoke to a place that I seem to have landed in the chaos that has become the daily norm. We can blame Covid, 2020, protests, government, politics, Putin, climate change and any number of worldwide chaos events but the reality is that within…