Word Traveling

Category: Faith

  • Inspired to Help- Oklahoma Tornado Disaster

    I remember being terrified as I hid under my oak school desk with my hands wrapped around my head. Tornado warning sirens and even preparedness drills in my midwestern school as a kindergarten girl left a deep imprint in my soul. And those were just drills… warnings. This storm was Oh. So. Real. Unthinkable. Unimaginable.…

  • Life Lessons from a Sea Turtle

    We live in South East Florida, one of the country’s prime spots for sea turtle nesting. For weeks now on my morning walks, I’ve seen their tracks and nests. Once again, the Lord has shown me one of my greatest lessons through the sea.   With two small boys and only a handful of night…

  • Moving Day

      Blog moving is just about as fun as house-moving. HAH! Something we’re all too familiar with… Let’s see… in the past 11 years since Luis and I met, I’ve lived… …Jupiter, Florida …Orlando, Florida …Myrtle Beach, South Carolina …Las Vegas, Nevada …Europe- all over, but mostly from the back of our Volvo XC90 (Spain, Italy, France,…

  • A page from Paris with Kids

    A little word art… from old travel books and my photos…inspired by an article I read in Florida Weekly about an artist named Austin Kleon. In between preparing to move and renovate a new home, homeschooling and keeping our family running, I’ve been following along on a 15-day writer’s challenge from a friend and mentor, Jeff Goins. Last night,…

  • Miscarried- A Poem about Miscarriage

    Grieved and inspired by two beautiful women’s recent experiences, I was forced to bring my dark time of grieving after miscarriage into the light to make sense of it… This is dedicated to all those cherished and gone before we’ve met with the promise of the Lord to meet again someday…and to the women who…

  • No.

    This morning,  my homeschool day was pushed aside to have just one more “play-date”. A chain of events spawned by my distractions out of the house led to a Pelligrino bottle crashing onto the floor at Whole Foods and shattering into thousands of pieces- half of which ended up in my son’s flip flops. We…