A record of the incessant and trivial chatter running through my head.
Monthly Archives: January 2013 I’m an idealist by nature. I expect plans to go perfectly. I build things up in my mind with the expectation that I will be met with calm waters and smooth sailing from start to finish. Recipe for disaster, I know, but I just can’t help myself. Fairy tales were made for people like me. […]  Over the last couple of years my Dad has added a new mantra to his lectures er, I mean encouragements to us. Well, maybe he has said it all my life, but it took on a new meaning after we lost my Mom. The words that I have heard so often in recent years go […]  That’s why the blog has been a bit, uh, well, quiet for a few days. Charlie brought a few of Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid books home school and we’re hooked. I know we are a bit late to jump on this train, but we are enjoying it just the same. Each evening Charlie, Chanelle and […]  I recently read a letter a woman wrote to an aspiring photographer: herself. I was moved by the letter and forced invited Chad to read the letter, as well. After reading it he looked at me and said, you need to write a letter to yourself. Since that day Chad has reminded me on several […]  As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate […] |
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