Yaya’s Garden After spending a day with my sister going over different ideas for a garden, this past weekend we decided to meet at our...

Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com As far back as I can remember, I attended church. My mom took us to church nearly every Sunday. I...

Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com As Father’s Day draws near, I am thinking about my father. There are not too many days that go by...

Picking up the very first copies of my book from my publisher. I have always been an avid reader.  Growing up, reading was my escape. ...

Photo by James Wheeler on Pexels.com Not long after I graduated high school, many, many moons ago, I met this guy who turned out to be a...

Everything you need to live the life of your dreams is within you.  The idea you have, the gift you want to give yourself and the world,...

After experiencing a challenge today, I learned that sometimes when you think you’ve won, you’ve really lost and sometimes when you think...

My initial reaction was hurt, anger and frustration.  Then I had a thought.  There will always be people around to tell you what you...

My morning drive has changed a bit.  Before the summer of 2019, the only person I had to worry about getting up in the morning was...

The Twin Tornadoes Currently, I have three children in my home.  My twins who are sixteen and my grandson who is four.  Since my twins...

While we were still teenagers ourselves, my sister and I moved into our own apartment.  Crazy to think about it now that we were actually...

Seems like this summer has flown by!  As an educator I am often asked this question nearly all summer long, “are you ready to go back?” ...

Being that we purchased our first home last summer, I thought it would be a great idea to work “part time” this summer and use that extra...

I am not unaware that I am getting older.  Some days I forget my age when my mind tells me, “oh, yeah, we can still do that!”  But then,...

In my last post I mentioned that one of the things I learned in 2017 is that as an educator, I’m going to need multiple streams of income...

I am so very glad that I journal almost every day, put darn near everything I do in my calendar and capture the most important moments on...

Why I Pray After spending about fifteen minutes complaining about her life and all that was going wrong in it, she asked me, “how do you...

I love my blog!  I don’t get to post to it as often as I like but I still love it!  Like everyone else in the world I work and have a...

I love the picture that comes up with my posts.  The picture of a wooden pathway, trees, a beautiful, clear sky with no end insight.  I...

Revelations 2:5 ~ Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first… Whenever I read a book like...