by Heidi | Jan 20, 2017 | Five Minute Friday
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky That quote always irked me a little. Sure, the Gretzky’s and the Jordan’s of this world can spout off pithy bits of inspirational wisdom like that. Look at all they’ve...
by Heidi | Oct 14, 2016 | Five Minute Friday
When I saw the prompt for today’s post, I was tempted to skip because all that came to mind was my favorite lines from the epic Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan movie You’ve Got Mail (Nora Ephron) … “… all this nothing has meant more to me than so...
by Heidi | Sep 16, 2016 | Five Minute Friday
This world is crazy loud, isn’t it? I feel like I’m losing the ability to listen well. Or maybe I should say the art listening well. Because it is an art form. A gift to our audience. A well-honed ability to put aside our own agendas and endless to-do...
by Heidi | May 13, 2016 | Five Minute Friday
Do you find that our culture is obsessed with ‘growth’? Not just the act of growing, but also the most efficient means of measuring it, as well? I do. We think and talk a lot about ‘growth’ at our house. The middle child isn’t as tall as...
by Heidi | Mar 18, 2016 | Five Minute Friday
Yep. This pretty much sums up how I feel about surprises. Maybe it’s the time change that started my week off on a rough note and seemingly made my people cranky and more prone to petty arguments, or perhaps it’s the pollen infiltrating our lives and...
by Heidi | Dec 4, 2015 | Five Minute Friday
The pressure to acquire more, find the perfect gift, make the lights on my pre-lit tree twinkle flawlessly … six days into the Advent season and I feel my joy leaking out. There seems to be little I can do to staunch it. A careless act on the part of a child...
