Terri Roberts told her story from the platform at the small church where I grew up. She told the story of how her son had become a perpetrator. Perpetrator—the word for a man or woman who commits a horrific crime against another person. The crime her son had committed was shooting ten Amish school girls….
Earlier this week, I posted this to Instagram: I was hesitant to post it, but it was one of those things that came from my heart. I was sitting there, reflecting on 2013, and these were the things that echoed in my head. They kept coming back to me, loud and clear, and even though…
I’ve been struggling with an issue lately. Thank you to all the friends who have heard me out, encouraged me, prayed with me, supported me, sometimes more than once. Because when I say struggle, I mean STRUGGLE. There are days when I feel like I can’t get beyond it. I’ve experienced the gamut of emotions,…
Note to readers: this blog post isn’t deep, or hugely eye-opening, but it’s part of my story, so I wanted to record it here. I’m so grateful for those who have continued to encourage us on our journey, so I wanted this to be an update for those folks. Tune in later for some Stationery…
This post is going to be honest, because I don’t have time for anything else. I read some place recently, “If you tell the truth all the time, you never have to remember.” Seriously. There are times I wake up in the middle of the night, like right now. I grab my phone, just to…
Long story short, we needed to get the house painted. It had been almost seven years since I moved into this house, and the colors were starting to feel dated, there were ugly brown water spots on the living room ceiling from a series of fiascoes, and a few little people had taken to the…
It’s been so long since I’ve blogged, I may have forgotten how to blog. Things have been rolling steadily along. I’m picking up just the right amount of new consulting clients, taking on some limited branding engagements, doing some coaching, and planning Stationery Academy. The orders for the August version of the Day Designer continue…
I posted this quote on Instagram last week, and instantly there were comments. Someone emailed to ask if I would make it into a print. Several others emailed to simply connect, and a couple of emails actually turned into phone conversations. The image actually got the most likes of any image I’ve posted, ever. It…
Friday afternoon, I sat in my car, tweeting away about giveaways and the whatnot, when I noticed a few sobering tweets show up in my twitter stream. I stopped all the RT’ing and started trying to figure out what was going on. Less than a few clicks later, my heart started to sink. I honestly…
