Tag: Finish the Sentence Friday

A Thousand Rebirths

I’ve been born a thousand times. The first time, the most obvious, was my physical birth. On the night I was born, my Mom sat at her parents’ kitchen table and played cards until 1:00 AM before heading for the hospital; I was born forty minutes later.  I wish I could tell you I am as expedient…

By Lisa May 15, 2016 Off

The Why Behind My Words

My Husband tells me I think in words. Now you’re wondering, doesn’t everyone?  No, I don’t believe that is true.     Some of us do think in words; we find sense and structure in our world via letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs. Others may think in pictures and see the world laid out in visual…

By Lisa April 10, 2016 Off

What Makes Me Weak

No one likes to admit weakness. We prefer to present ourselves as strong and capable, fearless and invincible, to the world and to ourselves. But no one is without their Achilles’ heel, their own personal Kryptonite. It’s different for each of us, of course. But let’s talk about Achilles and Superman for just a minute…     Achilles’…

By Lisa March 13, 2016 Off

Be Careful What You Wish For

What would you change if you knew how your life would unfold? Would you eat healthier? Exercise more? Would you take better care of your teeth? Maybe you would get up the nerve to ask out the cute guy in your French class. Or maybe you would wisely say “no” when the cute guy at the…

By Lisa March 5, 2016 Off

TToT/FTSF Mashup – For These Things We Are Thankful

It’s Sunday night and my link-up posts aren’t finished. I’ve spent the last several days alternating between wishing I could come up with something terrifically profound and hoping I just get something on the page and completely forgetting that I need to write the thing in the first place. It’s not that I don’t feel…

By Lisa February 7, 2016 Off

What I Have Learned from Experience

As we drive home in the afternoon, I often ask my daughter, “What did you learn in school today?”  Lately, her answer is “the usual.” And so I have to prompt her a little to be more specific – what is “the usual”? “Oh, math and English and spelling…same as always.” “Well what kind of…

By Lisa January 31, 2016 Off

If I Were a Crayon…

Today Kidzilla makes her guest post writing debut on the blog. I asked her to help me out with the prompt for this week’s Finish the Sentence Friday post because I was stumped. She’s a budding little writer and, even better, she knows how to edit herself, which she did before she let me post…

By Lisa January 21, 2016 Off

Calm and In Control

I swore I wasn’t going to do this. I was not going to write an end of the year wrap-up post, or a list of my favorite books, or favorite moments of the year. I was not going to make any New Year’s resolutions (aside from the perennial one I make to stop swearing) or post any…

By Lisa January 8, 2016 Off

This Summer…

This summer is going to be different… This summer I will spend some time on a bit of the usual. I will clean out closets, scrub under the stove burners and above the kitchen cabinets, and think about having a garage sale. But this summer will also be different… I will do those usual things,…

By Lisa June 12, 2015 Off