Real love looks like a thousand everyday, ordinary things that aren’t always romantic or written for the movies. Real love changes the middle of the night diaper, cleans up vomit at 3 AM, and plunges the toilet for the hundredth time. It wipes up the mess on the floor and takes out the trash, whether […]
What We Can Learn About Failure from an Olympic Skater
The skater glides across the ice in perfect form, his body a blend of athleticism and graceful movement. He focuses on his next jump, his stone face concentrating on the motion of this body. I saw that same look once on a ballerina’s face about to spin on pointe. I sat a few rows back […]
Five Minute Friday: How to Write and Live Brave when You’re Afraid
Every Friday on this blog, people are encouraged to write for five minutes on the topic chosen for the day and then share it with the world. Who knows what will happen in five minutes? Today’s Five Minute Friday topic is WRITE There was a time when I thought I wasn’t much of a writer. […]
Finding Happiness in Snowmaggedon
The snow swirls outside, blowing off rooftops and covering old footprints, burying our street in white. Sam scrapes snow from the driveway early in the morning. My daughter has been off of school eight days since Christmas break and I’m juggling the constant tension of a planned schedule with a newly-announced snow day. It is […]
No Regrets Life (How to Live More Intentionally)
It could have been just another night. The snow had been forever falling, or so it seemed, closing schools and blanketing the world in white powder and silence. But inside was a different story. There was a giant mountain of pillows in the living room and a girl and her dog flailing across them, knocking […]