THE JOURNAL

Oprah has “Aha ” moments, I have “waves of peace” moments, and Henry David Thoreau and Kelle Hamptom (my favorite blogger) has “sucking the marrow” moments.  “I went the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life, […]

I am always one to be a little fashionably late. I honestly don’t know how I made it six years in the military where I had to be on time, if not fifteen minutes early, ALL the time. Well, today I am a day late. I had the words “Launch Website” written all over my […]

He’s my breath of fresh air. The kind I need when I am having a bad day and the kind I feel when he walks through the front door. He gives the best good-morning kisses. Not the kind that are rushed and routine, but the kind that linger for a moment longer and leave my […]

The conversation did not go as planned. Stacy was unwavering in her faith and I quickly realized that I would have to plot out a more calculated argument than “What did Noah feed the animals while they were on his Ark?” However, discovering Stacy was a Christian helped me in a way. At that time […]

One thousand three hundred and twenty. That is the total number of calories of the whole box of Lucky Charms I am currently devouring and the amount of calories I could inexplicably consume in the next hour if I don’t stop staring at the computer screen and catch my thoughts that are currently playing ping pong […]