Why Your Story Matters
My favorite memory as a kindergartener is listening to my teacher, Ms. Miller, read stories. Every afternoon she sat on a stool as we gathered around her feet sitting cross-legged and wide-eyed as she read. The words from the stories she told drew me in like a moth to a flame. Recently, as I stood […]
Servant or Self Promotion?
My father was staying with my husband and I while recuperating from an emergency quadruple bypass surgery. I was thankful he was alive but felt overwhelmed with caring for him in such a fragile state. My Dad is a man’s man, a former police officer, and he was not about to have his only daughter […]
What Defines You?
The place where I grew up is a wide spot in the road surrounded by Central Illinois cornfields. Whenever I would hear someone give directions to our little town they would inevitably say, “Don’t blink or you will miss it.” That wasn’t far from the truth. As a teenager, I was convinced life was happening […]