Category Archives: Inner Circle

As I’ve blogged before, I have an inner competitiveness I struggle to keep contained.  Unfortunately, on Thanksgiving Day, it was my husband who paid for my inability to ignore the desire to best someone. After a fine spread of food … Continue reading →

I have a little red head that one day might be the death of me.  But this last week, he showed just how much of that is probably my fault.  Watching him perform in his kindergarten’s Thanksgiving Day Celebration, I … Continue reading →

This week I saw an amazing transformation of a young lady.  When we first met a few months ago, I mentally labeled her shy, nice kid, but shy.  Now I know putting labels on a person is not the best … Continue reading →

In sports, there’s more to losing than just numbers on a scoreboard.  It does something to the players themselves.  And if players experience enough repeated shellackings, the necessary inner believe in oneself needed for winning can be completely stripped away.  … Continue reading →

This past month my oldest son started another football season in not only a new town but a new state, which of course puts us on a completely new team.  And I’m struggling.  “Traitor, traitor, traitor,” my head chants every … Continue reading →

Life is like a roller coaster. Sometimes we’re up.  Sometimes we’re down.  Sometimes so many things crash upon us it feels as if we’re thrown for a loop.  It’s not these up and downs or even the loops that frustrate … Continue reading →

Every summer, year after year, I’ve work with my nearly eleven-year-old son on swimming.  Stuck with a swim teacher for a mommy he really didn’t have a choice.  For a long time his stroke technique was not the best.  Okay, … Continue reading →

With sweaty palms and a shaky voice, I stood at a pulpit this week speaking to the city council.  The complicated and drawn-out reasons why aren’t important, but I went there with a deep, down-in-the-gut feeling that this needed to … Continue reading →

Everybody has bad days.  You know the kind, when nothing seems to go right, and each blow as the day wears on drags you closer and closer to tearing your hair out.  Well…my computer, filled with its dozens of children … Continue reading →

Work, work, work, is my usual focus in life.  I like schedules, checklists, and the feeling of accomplishment that comes when goals are complete.  Yet, I have to say, it is also good to rest sometimes.  And that’s what I … Continue reading →