Last night, I crawled into bed, hoping my eyes would hold up a few minutes longer; a least long enough to travel to a distant land through the portal of my bedside novel. I needed just a few moments to take a break from our real world and relax my mind. The past couple…
I’m not quite sure how old I was when I started getting the remarks on my report card: Lynn needs to learn how to be quiet. I guess it was at whatever age I started getting report cards. I read them. I talked to my mom about the changes I needed to make. But when…
What was the last scary thing you did? Me? Getting away to try to get the last of Brave Beauty written, I approached the mountain house, ready to write my heart away. That was when I spotted it … little bear paws on the red rocking chairs! Sleeping in that home all night by myself…
There it was. That beautiful voice, drifting down the stairs, once again. If only I could understand even one of the words she sang. The fullness of her voice belonged in a cathedral not holed up in the tiny bedroom where she practiced with her piano again and again and again. For months, my daughter…
Join me this week for Brave Enough, a series where we’ll look at the every day situations where all of us girls, no matter what our age, find ourselves needing to be brave enough! Is there a certain activity the cool kids at your kid’s school do? At Alexandra’s school, all the cool kids played sports….
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