Journaling is a tool for both learning about and teaching me about myself.
Category Archives: Walking in the Word
Reflection Friday: Tools for Effective Self-Reflection – Intro
Introspection and self-reflection are the keys to knowing where you are in the seasonal cycles of your life. Sometimes, we are so deep into what is consuming us, we can’t identify our location or our next move.
Interview: Bold Journey – Meet LaShawnda Jones
I thought when I sat down to write my first book, the story would be some type of romance. Something with a happy ending. But what kept coming out was all my angst. All my frustration. All my hurt and pain. Everything the body remembered and I tried to forget. At some point, I realized most of what I wrote about was my trauma or things produced from trauma.
Chicago Feedback
“Thank you, not just for myself, but for all the women in the world that have felt what your touching written words have said.”
Desert of Solitude Revised
Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace is the second book in my Faith Series which chronicles my faith walk by the decade. The beginning of the journey is My God and Me: Listening, Learning and Growing on My Journey. Desert of Solitude is an excellent long-form companion to Alone | All In One: A SolitaryContinueContinue reading “Desert of Solitude Revised”
Alone | All In One: A Solitary Journey
Alone | All In One: A Solitary Journey is now available for purchase and review!
Advice: Husband Secretly Set Up a Trust
My husband and I married 10 years ago. It was a second marriage for both of us. I recently found out that after five years of marriage, he put all of our assets into trusts controlled by him alone.
Poem: 63 Today
Your presence was joy to me.
What was joy to you? Was any portion
of your earth time enjoyable? Better
than bearable? Worthy of thanksgiving?
63 today. Each year since you left
I think I know you better than ever
and not at all. Who were you, Terry Ann?
Making a home in hostile places
In early November I returned to Arizona for a couple of days. On my drive from Phoenix to Tucson I had some revelatory moments. I share them here. There are no safe places. True peace is never of the world. I’m learning that my life has been about escaping all the ties that bind myContinueContinue reading “Making a home in hostile places”
Video: Becoming What You Hate
Thought experiment: Project the idea of your best self into the idea of your best environment. What’s the first step in getting you there in reality?
Harvest Life 