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Penny’s Plight: Her First Summer Camp

If you haven’t heard, I self-published a picture story book with Kindle Direct Publishing last month. I wrote it after discovering that my son, Landry, loved hearing adventurous stories of my childhood and wanted to hear this particular camping story over and over. I also love any opportunity to instill a lasting love of reading in my children. This book is loosely based on the experience I had in my early teens at a week-long wilderness camp. Furthermore, my son loves to shine a light on the fact that I was not the kind character in the book.

  • You can CLICK on this image to view or purchase my book on Amazon.

  • I have created a FREE activity page to go along with this book. You can download and print by clicking on the image.

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New Year, New Word.

As 2018 comes to a wrap, I’m contemplating what was and charged about what 2019 will hold. Are you? I’m done with making resolutions that I won’t keep and that just bring disappointment or guilt when not fulfilled. So, I’ve decided on one word to approach the new year with. The word that keeps popping up for me for 2019 is the word, nourish. What phases me about this word is how I’ll steward it. I mean it sounds like a healthy word, right?

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The Details!

I believe our stories do carry significance, whether the details are great or small. Today I’m referring to the simplest of stories and occurrences that come about through our daily walk that are bound to point us in the right direction if we only look at them in the right light. We all have days that start out one way and turn out entirely different. That is what I experienced yesterday. Continue reading “The Details!”

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Compassion Over Comparison

We undoubtedly live in an image-obsessed culture. I could only imagine that if I was 22 at the present moment and starting a blog, it would perhaps be a fashion or design blog instead. Not that there’s anything wrong with those. Plug into Instagram for a few minutes and hit search and see how many celebrities pop up dressed to impress, looking rather fab just after giving birth with their perfectly done hair and makeup, out for a stroll in their designer heels. I’m not sure how JLo, Kim and Khloe or Christie Brinkley are my target audience, but there they are, looking all amazing and getting millions of accolades in likes that just seems to stir the obsession-with-self pot even further. Author, Sharon Hodde Miller says, “whenever we relinquish our splendor, we fight back against the impossible standards for women. When we lower the bar for women around us, expose our weaknesses instead of keeping up, and humble ourselves instead of competing, that is a gift to our sisters. In an image-obsessed culture like ours, that’s what love looks like.” Continue reading “Compassion Over Comparison”

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7 Ways To Fail At Friendship

It’s a beautiful thing to understand another and be understood in such a way that promotes and builds a true and genuine friendship. It allows me the freedom to be exactly who I am and be accepted in a safe and loving space. You know when this type exists and when it doesn’t. I’ve made plenty of mistakes trying to please others at an attempt to win or keep a friendship. Author, Lisa TerKeurst says it best in that, “we must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.” Cultivating true friendship takes time and requires me to love and be loved.  Not every relationship will go the distance. I mean, if someone treats you poorly, oversteps boundary after boundary or shares information about you that isn’t theirs to share, you wouldn’t exactly stay in that relationship if the behavior continued. So, here’s a few things I’ve learned along the way that can mess up a friendship. Continue reading “7 Ways To Fail At Friendship”