“…And More”

I am speaking tomorrow at a retreat for Elmbrook Church (a mega church in Brookfield, WI).  Last fall when I agreed to speak I went to the website trying to find the times for my seminars to plan for the rest of my busy weekend.  As I was looking around the...

Four Letter Words

This morning I was in a mood.  If you’re a chic, you know this mood (not sure if dudes have this problem or not).  It’s when everything bugs you; messy children, the dog underfoot, your husband reading the newspaper while you’re making lunches, the sound of...

Fat Tuesday Earplugs

Every year just before Ash Wednesday for the past several years I have undergone a ritual.  It includes lamenting over what I should give up for Lent.  No, the church I attend does not practice abstaining from something during the Lenten season but we...

Fourteen Points and Ninety Seconds

Sunday when I was getting ready for church my husband came to show me a video clip.  Knowing how I don’t do interruptions when I’m getting ready he assured me it would only take a minute.  It was a video of a high school basketball game where the coach had...

Lessons From a Funeral

If you read my last blog I told you about one of my best friend’s mom’s two month battle with cancer. On Saturday I attended Pam’s funeral and it was one of those times that I just had to write down all that I learned going through it because it was that...

I Don’t Know How to Do This

I have a few close friends lately who have lost or are close to losing their parents.  They are going to hospital daily, trying to coordinate getting a sick parent home and having to talk to their children about the possibility of losing Grandma or Grandpa. ...
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