"Lead with your heart,
and don’t let fear get in the way."
Wendy Pitts Reeves
29 Ways to be a (Really Tired but) Very Good Girl
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a Good Girl.
Here’s a few things that seem to fit, based partly on my own...
Courage in Action: Big Lessons, BIG Growth
I told her she’d be a different person at supper that night.
Of course, she looked at me like I was crazy.
But then, I knew something she...
Courage in Action: Little Lessons, Big Growth
“Now, where does this pole go?”
“Do I put the stakes in BEFORE I stick the poles in those little sleeve things or...
Whoops. Did I miss a turn somewhere?
Have you ever been lost?
I have – so many times it’s not funny. Well actually, it IS funny.
Sometimes very funny.
Like...
There’s a Cricket in My Skillet, and Other Joys of Camping
No, I’m not into eating weird things. :)
Just found the little guy when I pulled out a skillet to cook a little breakfast over the...
Put your lips to the world…
The other day I told you I was heading out to do a little exploring, in anticipation of our June 21 Not-So-Secret Adventure Weekend....
The Joys – and Dangers – of ‘Sploring
I’m going ‘sploring today.
That’s what we’d call it when the kids were little. Their dad and I would gather them up, grab a...
5 Ways to Face the Fear Monster
Where do you find the courage to do those things that scare you the most?
I’ve been thinking about that. I talk to women every day who push...
Do You Know a Courageous Woman?
I do.
Lots of them. Several of them, like Carolyn, piled into kayaks with me on a sunny afternoon last fall, even when they were...