Basically, I haven’t cut my hair since 1999. It’s not a religious thing. I watched that movie, “You’ve Got Mail” with Meg Ryan and thought she was SO adorable!

This is me… the flower girl at my mom and dad’s wedding! What a weird moment, right? That stuff usually happens BEFORE we’re born. I guess I could go around regretting the history I have, being aggravated that my life wasn’t like most people’s. Or I can EMBRACE it! I can revel in the fact […]

For some of us, running is the thing we do so that we’re too BUSY to think about… it. (What’s your “it?”) We become workaholics (totally guilty), alcoholics, mom-aholics (oh yeah, you overachieving moms, it’s a thing), rage-aholics, volunteer-aholics, food-aholics, and relationship dodging-aholics. (I did that one, too) We don’t want to stop because if […]

Nobody likes to have a door slammed shut in their face. But I believe that God moves through CLOSED DOORS as much as He does open ones. My ex-boyfriend was a really GREAT guy. He was good-looking, had a solid job, and treated me with more respect than any guy had… to that point. But […]

It doesn’t matter what happened TO you or what happened BECAUSE of you. After junior high, my family moved!  A new county and a new school district where NOBODY knew me. (There IS a God!) I was popular. I got invited to parties. I was the girl who said “yes”—to EVERYTHING! “We’re gonna sneak out […]