With Grace

Chapter 1 Grace heard a loud knock on her front door. She could see the tall, broad shoulders of a man in a uniform standing with a wispy teenage girl on her front porch. She slid off the stool at her kitchen island and slowly made her way to the door. As she got closer …

Just Bee…

What Is Home?

I purchased my first house at twenty-six years old.  It was over a hundred years old with creaky floors, peeling paint, a crooked porch, and a dirt basement. The lot was tiny but I planted as much as I could. I harvested tomatoes and cucumbers, one meal's worth of corn on the cob and tons …

Lightening My Way

I am an what I call an information dumper. When I meet people I seem to blurt out the negative things that have happened in my life all at once just to get it out of the way. Sometimes they squirm in their chair or look towards the door.  I think it is the fact …

Looking Back To Move Forward

I ran into a friend from my hometown after I had moved away. We ended up living in the same town many years after we graduated. Someone I've known since grade school but didn't keep in touch with once we graduated. One night when we were out around our new town she told me a …

What Feeds Your Soul?

Music has and always will feed my soul. With access to anything via YouTube you can go back to the days of music videos and seek out your favorite - or better yet - new artists. Ya, you heard me right... they still make music videos! I don't know about you but I remember the …

Coming Around: Life As A Young Mum

I started my family life earlier than most of my friends. I was pregnant at 17, an unwed mother at 18 with a live in boyfriend, and a single mother at 19. Nothing like jumping right into adulting. I have always been a little ahead of the curve [she says with sarcasm font].

Raising Independent Kids: Be A Good Roommate

Asking all the parents out there - when you decided to have children did visualize them as adults and try to see who they would turn out to be? Really think back. For me personally having a child was a bit of a selfish choice. That's right, I was selfish when I decided to have …

Makin’ somethin’ outta nuthin’

When faced with being a single parent of a high school aged girl I spent a lot of my time trying to catch up. We moved from my hometown of 36 years to a new city. She started at a new high school, got her drivers license and I bought a home. There was a …

What is self care, really?

Do you cringe every time you hear a lifestyle guru or your favorite blogger talk about 'Self Care'? Is it because you know you don't do enough? Or you just don't have the time? Don't know where to start? I was one of those people for so many years. I used every excuse in the book. …