Courage
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sometimes everything in my world aligns and I can sit down and read a book from start to finish without any interruptions. Sometimes it...
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...
***This post contains affiliate links.*** During the deathly down low temperatures of the despicable winter weather, my children and I...
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...
In The Purple Door District by Erin Casey, the reader is introduced to a new parahuman world. In The Purple Door District, the reader...
Nombre. Nom. Jina. Naam. Pavadinimas. Nome. Me llamo. Je m'appelle. Niitwa. Sono chiamato. Aš vadinamas. Ik heet. It was the...
There was an amazing attribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. last at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids. I...
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!"...
If there was a magical place where you could float yourself away to another dimension, would you go? I would-and I do, regularly. I...
Birthdays are a time of reflection. Birthdays are a time when we celebrate another year of wisdom, another year of growth, and another...
Ten years ago, we made our annual New Year's Eve sparkler bomb with 960 sparklers. For ringing in 2019, I definitely didn't see the New...
I almost never watch a movie and then read a book, but #SkippingChristmas by #johngrisham was a gift and since this winter break I have...
Movies are a part of my life. It's not uncommon for one of our weekend activities to include a trip to the movies. My obsession started...
With it being the day after Christmas, this exhausted mom curled up with a YA novel The State of Grace by Rachael Lucas. (I may have...