“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.” ― J.M. Barrie I took my car in for a routine oil change this week. And I left feeling incredibly thankful to be alive. I won’t get into the details of it, but as it turns out,…
Overwhelmed. That is the only word that can be used to describe today. Overwhelmed with the amount of work projects that are piling up. Overwhelmed by the amount of toys scattered across the living room floor. Overwhelmed with the million little household chores on my to-do list and the handful…
Yesterday morning I sat outside on our back deck, coffee in one hand, pen in the other. Since it was Sunday, I had turned off my computer, cell phone, television, and quieted some of the external noise. The internal noise, however, lingered. I was anxious about a phone call I…
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson We’ve all heard it and we’ve all said it. “I just want to…
There are those days, those weeks, those months when things just seem a bit, well, subpar. When we’re feeling a little down, a little stressed, or in a bit of a funk. Maybe the cause is a fleeting, no-good-reason bad mood. Or maybe its work stress, family feuds, relationship disagreements,…
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” Orson Welles As Orson Welles said, happy endings depend on where we choose to stop the story. But they also depend on the story that we choose to tell. Because isn’t all of life,…