—- This is a hard question, and everyone has a different answer. I mean, it doesn’t really matter what the thing is, does it? As soon as you read the question, you knew what it was for you. Maybe this post is about your addiction to doughnuts. Maybe this post is about your marriage. Maybe…
What are you afraid of? Because that’s the next lesson you need to learn from.
In order for this next story to make sense, you have to know that I have the weirdest and coolest job in the world. No, I am not a professional pudding wrestler. No, I am not a ninja goddess. Those are good guesses, but not quite. I am, in fact, a professional pioneer. It was…
Modern medicine has come a long way. For example, if there was once a time when it was considered pretty good doctoring to put maggots on a festering wound. And if your baby did a lot of crying? In the 10th century there was a pretty good likelihood that she was a changeling and would…
There are actually some pretty cool things about having cancer. Here are 6 to start with.
So, I should start with the basics: I have started acting again. This is kind of a big deal, as I felt that when I got married it wasn’t a good idea to pursue acting. There were a number of reasons, but the biggest one was that my husband thought I would spend so much…
It takes a bit of faith to believe that kindness and love where you are—in your house, in your school, in your job—can influence Vladamir Putin or Joe Biden.
I have always wondered what kind of person would choose to jump from a burning building. I’ve wondered what I would do.
For a second, imagine you are on a Pacific Ocean beach. The air is warm, the water cold. You sit in your beach chair, beneath your colored canopy. You are maybe eating a hotdog that is burned on the outside and cold in the center. It is covered in ketchup or relish or sauerkraut and…
You want to know the facts and details. The figures of what this means. I can easily rehearse the same monologue to you that I have rehearsed so many times over in so many different places. “I thought there was something strange a while ago, maybe even years…” “My husband noticed it first, and I…
I had a vision. In my mind’s eye, I was with the Lord. He took me down to a beautiful river at the edge of a wide, yellow field of grass. We sat beneath a tree and talked. The Lord turned to me and said, “You always loved the river.” “Yes,” I said, tears welling…
I am a smart person. I grew up as a “nerd,” taking honors classes and participating in Brain Bowl where me and my nerd friends showed off our trivia skills in a winner-take-all, cage-match-style competition. Okay. It was really just a couple of tables set up in the library with a lot of questions about…