Brave, Anyway

  • Be Blessed (or Blessed Be), Brave Girl

    My children are smarter than me. I say this regularly and I think people think I am being silly. It’s true and I’ll say it again: my girls are smarter than me. I may still need to provide them with instruction and guidance as it relates to riding a bike, driving a car, eating broccoli,…

  • Why don’t we say Partly Sunny?

    The word broken means a lot more than I thought it did. I’ve always thought of broken as not working and not fixable. Like a mirror – once it’s broken, it’s done. Nothing but an annoying thing you need to clean up (as you’re trying not to cut yourself) and throw away. But according to…

  • Go Into The Light, Brave One

    I think I have seen every episode of Friends at least a couple times. Some of them I’ve probably seen a dozen times – I especially love the Thanksgiving episodes and the ones from the season where the main characters have switched apartments. One of my favorite Phoebe moments is in an early episode and…

  • WWJD? He’d Nap.

    Have you ever sat in a car or house while it’s pouring rain and looked across the street at dry ground? Rains and storms both fascinate me and frighten me. I think it’s odd that people freak out because we live in an area subject to hurricanes but they think nothing of living in an…

  • What Will You Whisper, Brave Girl?

    I have really missed television. I have not had time to just watch TV in forever. However, I have continued to faithfully record shows on my DVR even though I had no real intention of watching them. So if you ask me if I watch The Bachelor and I say yes, what I really mean…