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It's no surprise that I have a love for new words from other cultures that mean something in one word that takes us several English words...

It's spring break. I am at an amusement park with my children and husband - much more their idea of fun than mine - but while my courage ...

Almost anywhere you look on this blog, you can either find references to water or books. The two things I am most passionate about - book...

This afternoon I am meeting an adult - for the first time - who is a non-swimmer. According to our emails, he's not afraid of the water -...

It's nearly the end of the first quarter of 2019. It's a month later than I wanted to share my gratitude for a truly fabulous start to 20...

Eventually I will finish my blog post and tell you all about my wonderful February. (For it being a month that I generally dislike--mostl...

Courage--it comes from the Latin word--Cor. Cor means "of the heart." Although the origin of the word is heart, over the years it has cha...

There's always chores that need done. ALWAYS. One of my least favorites is grocery shopping. Add kids to grocery shopping and it makes it...

I am one month and 25 days into my year of giving myself the gift of a year of self-love and one of the best gifts that I regularly give ...

Nita is not just any young adult. She is an unnatural, sentenced to helping her mom sell body parts on the black market. When Nita is kid...

It's February. That means that when there's a bajillion snow days, I make Valentine's with my kids. My 8 year old, second grader, like ma...

Sometimes everything in my world aligns and I can sit down and read a book from start to finish without any interruptions. Sometimes it d...

I'm on my third glass of wine tonight. It's becoming more common for me to drink some wine this winter, after all, we had our 7th snow da...

***This post contains affiliate links.*** During the deathly down low temperatures of the despicable winter weather, my children and I ha...

Water is an amazing substance. It can be a solid, liquid, or gas, and yet its chemical properties are the same. It is always two parts hy...

In The Purple Door District by Erin Casey, the reader is introduced to a new parahuman world. In The Purple Door District, the reader mee...

Nombre. Nom. Jina. Naam. Pavadinimas. Nome. Me llamo. Je m'appelle. Niitwa. Sono chiamato. Aš vadinamas. Ik heet. It was the mid-nineties...

There was an amazing attribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. last at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids. I ho...

My utmost admiration for another "before the sun rises" author, Julie Clark, in telling the story of Paige, a single mother - by choice, ...

I've been listening to this voice. The one that says, "Live courageously. The water is sometimes raging, but live courageously anyways!" ...