How To Stay Sane During the Holidays

How To Stay Sane During the Holidays

There are two types of people when it comes to the holidays. The first are the loud, obnoxious and happy type that spend every day decorating, baking cookies, blaring Christmas songs really loud everywhere they go and shopping for ridiculous amounts of time. Then...
Anxious For Nothing

Anxious For Nothing

I stood on the verge of a mental collapse, holding a bed comforter set in one hand and my phone to my ear with the other. I felt the hot tears streaming down my face mingled with the humiliation of crying over something so ridiculous as this. Why couldn’t I just make...
Come Out Of Hiding

Come Out Of Hiding

I have this fancy purple jacket hanging up in my closet and I can’t seem to get rid of it. It’s nicely detailed with embroidered patterns throughout the entire jacket. It’s a beautiful shade of deep purple, almost an eggplant color. One of the reasons I bought it is...
There Was a Struggle

There Was a Struggle

Will I ALWAYS be a slightly fat girl living in a chocolate sprinkled donut world?? The thought raced through my mind as I awkwardly tugged on my cardigan to snuggly wrap up my muffin top. I knew the skinny chirocpractor assistant girl saw me and my muffin top but I...
Misunderstandings and Other Such Annoyances

Misunderstandings and Other Such Annoyances

Is there anything worse than being misunderstood?  What a slap in the face it is to have someone completely misunderstand your actions….especially when they were pure and for the benefit of others.  What do you do when you have followed God’s will and...
Don’t Take the Bait

Don’t Take the Bait

I felt my trigger finger itching to shoot. I knew I could throw up a quick smart sounding post on social media to sound off just like everyone else in the world. I wanted someone to hear my two cents because that’s the only way we can make a difference in our society,...
Go

Go

Shana Strange brings an encouraging song about following the call of God and being willing to go wherever He leads
30 Seconds to Greatness

30 Seconds to Greatness

I’m sure most mornings at the gym I look like a crazy person. I tune the rest of the world out and turn up my eclectic mix of weird artist and proceed to sweat to death. I get a lot of stares and occasional high fives while busting out 30 second intervals of awful...
Cookies and Other Such Distractions

Cookies and Other Such Distractions

Temptations rarely ever knock on my door when I’m feeling my best. They usually show up at my door knocking like an 8 year old selling girl scout cookies, loudly, unannounced, full of giggles and sparkles and I’m usually drained from my chaotic life so I shout an...