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Twelve years ago today , I published my first post on this blog. With only a few words and no photograph to accompany it, it was a start. I can still remember sitting on my bedroom floor, after a good cry and thinking of something inspirational to type up. I was …

Wow. And just like that, a decade has passed by since I first began writing on this blog back in 2011 . I honestly cannot believe I’m still here in this little space of mine so many years later. “Hellooo… hellooo… Is anybody there?” Sometimes I imagine all these yea…

“Fear is the one thing that stops many of us from going forward and from taking a chance. Today I will take mine." 9 years ago today, I wrote those few words on this blog and then hit “publish”. The so…

If I could rewind back to 8 years ago today, I had recently graduated with my bachelors in education, returned from a road trip to celebrate... and then came back to real life smacking me in the face.  I was 22 years old, fresh out of college and confused on w…

I turn the big 3-0 in about one month (I know, I know! I never thought this day would come), and being in the last year of my twenties, it got me all nostalgic and thinking of just how much a decade can change you, mold you, and totally direct the course of how t…

*This post is dedicated to one of my cousins... you inspired me with your beautiful words of hope to  write this. Thank you ♥️ I was driving home and typical Barbara move, going through my list of what I needed to get done in numerical order (if I say it out …

The sky was the bluest I'd ever seen since the warmer days of fall had left, and the sun finally made an appearance after the endless cloudy days of winter. I drove down the winding road, lined with brown trees yet to bloom. I liked this path to my second job…

I was reading over the story of Joshua, when the unbelievable happened and all of the Israelites were able to cross the Jordan Riv er on completely dry ground. It goes like this: Joshua readies his people by telling them that tomorrow, the Lord will do wonders …

Love. The 4-letter word that has caused more heartache, pain, and confusion since the beginning of time.   Whether we realize it or not, we are more conditioned today about what love is supposed to be like, than we want to admit. Every movie we watch, the songs…

As I sit here at the dinner table of my home, lights off with just the sunlight from the side door pouring in, I anxiously wait for the words to spill out...  and then I realize how much of a jumpy, uneasy person I am. Sigh , I'm a worrier.  I worry when …

They say that you are your truest self at the age of 5. And after this past year, I can say that that statement might indeed be true. Last year I was in a leadership position of head teacher, and it challenged me in ways I didn't think I was capable of hand…