Enjoy this guest post by author Ashley Collins… Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan and The Beatles all have something in common… they “failed” their way to success. They “failed forward.” They didn’t allow the negative opinions of others to stop them from pursuing their dreams. They were fired, ridiculed, criticized, laughed at…They […]
My grandson wears his clothes backwards. Even his underpants sometimes. He’s three. When he first learned to dress himself we thought he was putting his clothing on backwards by accident. But now that he has become proficient at dressing himself we’ve come to learn he likes wearing his clothes backwards, and does it on purpose. […]
“Lord, please give me the strength and wisdom to get through today. Please Lord, I need energy—I’m not asking for extra—just enough to do everything I need to today.” Many days started like that, but on this particular day it was not one of those parenting days, in fact, all was well—superb even. My day […]
Christmas lights were pretty and fun and free. And in abundance on the way to the hospital. I looked forward to your doctor’s appointment in Lexington the way I looked forward to school trips to the circus. I couldn’t wait to go to Toys’R’Us and the mall. I only liked the mall because I could […]
Christmas is just weeks away. There’s so much hustle and bustle during this time of year, and frankly, I just don’t want to expend energy on rushing around. There is so much I could, and perhaps should be doing to prepare for the holiday, but I just don’t want to. I want to be still. […]
And they left for the ER, that was the middle of this holiday story. But let’s start at the beginning, shall we? I was over the moon excited! My whole family would be together for this Thanksgiving holiday celebration. My son along with our almost four year old grandson was flying in to join us. […]
We all have one, that challenging relative we hardly see during the year, but it’s the holiday time, and well, they’re family, right? You love this relative, and yet, anytime you see him you kind of brace yourself because you never know what they will be demanding of you this time. Or she brings up […]
I was sitting at my kitchen table while my husband was Skyping a soon-to-be bride. Not just any bride, this once little girl had asked my husband to officiate her wedding because he was her pastor when she was a kid. Her grandmother had brought her to church on a regular basis and now that […]
I had always prided myself on not having yelled at my husband during labor with my kids. Well, my unblemished record just got demolished. I yelled at him during the birth of our granddaughter. It wasn’t pretty. Bragging rights have been rescinded. For the full story let’s go back to the beginning… Our daughter was […]
November of 1987 I was waiting for what was to be the most monumental and life changing event of my life. One that would bring me more joy, laughter, tears, and celebration than I could have ever imagined. This epic change would mark my identity almost as much as saying “I do” some five years […]
