When my kids were littles, Christmas was my least favorite holiday – or at least the leading-up-to part. Looking back on it, I realize it wasn’t Christmas’ fault. As most mamas can relate, it was the stress of ALL THE THINGS – buying “just the right gift” and trying to hit the sales so you…
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Get REAL: Relationships, Foster or Forget?
Pretend for a moment that you’re a judge on a new reality television show called Relationship Idol. One by one, all the people you have a relationship with come up the mic, but instead of singing, they stand there and look at you. REALLY look at you. And you REALLY look at them. Then the…
The space between the storms
Note: wrote this post last week on vacation. Publishing now. Miranda Lambert accompanies me as I sit in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows at the Marriott airport hotel in Nashville, just hours before I’ll head back home to Oklahoma – a place Miranda also calls home. I titled this post when I was 20,000 feet…
Hope Floats Storygrams
In doing the True-Do Track over on my Facebook page, which began in January with a month of journaling prompts, I’ve realized a few things already, including that I’m going to have MORE FUN with books and work this year. I felt like 2012 was all to-do list which is partly what inspired my True Do…
Author Jess Riley Rocks ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE
Carrying on with my Sleigh Read from last week, I’ve invited a girlfriend in the sleigh with me – Jess Riley, one of my favorite women’s fiction authors. Do yourself a favor and put both of her books in your stocking- Driving Sideways and her new novel, All the Lonely People. It’s such a clever premise…
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