by Nicole | Jan 23, 2013 | confessions
I was 17 years old. My grandparents were in the front seat of their late 80s Oldsmobile Ciera sedan, and I sat in the back with my great grandmother, who was also in her late 80s. We drove through Longview, Washington, on a clear, sunny November day en route to my...
by Nicole | Jan 22, 2013 | Book Reviews, confessions
Description: We all long for more of something in our lives. In our endless pursuit to feel worth and acceptance we find ourselves sacrificing everything for the promise to be a little more beautiful, a little richer, a little more powerful and successful, a little...
by Nicole | Jan 21, 2013 | confessions
It’s been a rough couple of weeks, but through the ugliness of frozen days, illness, jury duty, death and broken vehicles, there has been a true beauty to January 2013. Sometimes, you have to look beyond the surface to see the true gift. This outrageously cold...
by Nicole | Jan 17, 2013 | confessions, thankful thursdays
Today’s Thankful Thursday list is different — as I was writing about how “it can wait until tomorrow” is a lie I had been thinking of the times I put off visiting my family, because of the inconvenience of traffic or the chaos of life in...
by Nicole | Jan 16, 2013 | confessions
On Saturday, I needed to run some errands but I talked myself out of it… “There’s still Sunday! I have plenty of time on Sunday.” Well, Sunday happened to knock me out with a nasty head cold. So much for Sunday. My greatest enemy is the...
by Nicole | Jan 15, 2013 | confessions
NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, takes place every November. Thousands of writers hunker over keyboards as peer pressure oozes, trying to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I’ve done this for three years now… And for the first time, I struggled. I...
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