This year I had an ugly garden. And every time I passed it by, I thought about how I needed to find the time to pull some weeds, plant some new flowers and divide some plants that were overgrown and hogging up the space. And every time I passed it by, I groaned and sighed […]
Shell Games
“Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.” ~Katharine Hepburn I love this quote. Not so much the idea of being plain, that doesn’t appeal to me very much. Frankly, I’d like to believe that I could have […]
Baby Steps and Marathons
“I Run Because I Can” ~Wendi Kelly The quote up above was my mantra when I slowly but surely crossed the finish line of the first—and so far only— marathon of my life. Slow, slow slow, and plodding, I actually had a friend walking beside me as I jogged my stubbornly steady steps to […]