A Letter to My Six Year Old Self

Hello. I love you. You’re about to experience some things that will change your life forever. First, know you’re okay. (My Sister & I) Just because you will have to go through some things alone, or be the one who is responsible, does not mean you have to do everything yourself. In fact you are …

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Blessed

My favorite holiday movie. Bing said it best, “Count your blessings”. Rather than making a list, let’s try this exercise. Please share if you’re comfortable doing so. Repeat after me. “I am so blessed that I can ______. Because of this, I am able to _________ for others. And that multiplies my blessings.”

Soiled Hands/Take Me to the Movies

Lately, gratitude has been a big focus for me. I want to consciously live with an appreciation and love of even the smallest things in my life, things like walking hand-in-hand with my honey to get ice cream in the summer. My father told me a story once of my mother’s cousin who visited them …

The Porch Light

It is hard work to stay on the path we gave ourselves at birth. It is also not truly expected that we do so, only that we find it again when we detour from it. How would one ever learn to survive if they simply walked in a direction that was already cleared? You must …

The Comeback

"To change the world around us, we need to change ourselves first."~Santosh Joshi It has been a while since we talked. We have all been going through quite the change recently. How are you holding up? It's not always easy. I myself have been looking at what I need to focus on to maintain a …

A True Story of Forgiveness

The headline in the Paintsville Herald for April 5, 1928, read, “Killing at White House: Jasper Lemaster Charged with Killing Alec Adams Surrenders to Officers.”   Alec Adams was my great-grandfather. There are different accounts of what happened, depending on which newspaper articles you read. Here, I will share with you the story from what I've learned …