1. We become what we repeat. 2. Pain + Reflection = Progress 3. Failure is the most information-rich data. (Entrepreneur Tom Bilyeu) 4. We experience life according to our beliefs. (Author Ken Honda) 5. We all fail. Failure is not a life sentence. It’s a moment. We don’t have to stay there. 6. Don’t think,… Read More Starting Over When I Should’ve Gotten There: 12 Truths
1. Thou shalt not waste readers’ time. Offer up thy readers a worthy sacrifice that they might take and leave satisfied. 2. Thou shalt honor thy muse. Be prepared in season, out of season to seize inspiration when she comes that ye might write, dance, photograph, paint thy bliss. Be not caught without thy scroll,… Read More The Ten Commandments of Blogging
I would rather be read than seen, but delivering my poem on that stage to an audience serious about art and beauty was one of the most gratifying experiences of my life. I have watched my favorite poets online reading from their book at gatherings the way I’ve appreciated figure-skating on the Olympics channel. Very… Read More Sometimes They Love You, Sometimes They Don’t
I wonder if she woke feeling any different that day, if she’d had any telltale dreams. We women have our sixth sense about things. But she probably had no inkling that it was her last dawn, at least on this earth. It was a sudden heart attack. Who did she greet on the way out… Read More Our Final Day and a Deal With God
8 Years Old: Boy: Mom, if I marry a girl and then don’t like her anymore can I switch? Mom: *shake head* No, that’s why you must choose very carefully. Boy: Oh. *looking disappointed* ++++++++++++++++++++++ Boy: Mom, when do people get married? Mom: You can marry in your teens but most people do it in… Read More Women, Money, and Barbarians
Seven-and-a-half ~ Yes, we all have our job. Yours is to study, mine is to cook and teach you, Daddy’s is to make money. Huh. I have the hardest job of all. ————— Umma, what is the bottom number? The lowest number….the floor? *Smile* It’ll be a negative number, right? Way below zero. Only God… Read More Words Between Mom and Boy, Part 3
At seven-and-a-half, Tennyson memorized the first seven verses of John 1 in Latin and English in the homeschooling with Classical Conversations, a global home education program based on the ancient Classical model of learning. I set each text to song and he downed them like dessert. In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum,… Read More Long Live Latin
I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. I am ashamed to claim faith in Jesus Christ, unworthy as I am to bear that name and call myself a Christian. For my sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, suffered death and was buried. I love the order and witness of… Read More This I Believe
Unless you’re helplessly tone-deaf, you’ll hear the unvarnished attempt of a songwriter whose gift wasn’t singing. I can’t help wince at my voice but if the Scriptures sung in crude, bare worship should bless anyone, the embarrassment will have been worth it. I thought the song of hope would take us nicely from the last… Read More I Will Sing: Faith
A Holistic Journey 