Mental Gym

  Grunts… Raahhhhs… Ooooos… A country music mixup with a new age beat. The traditional background music at the gym.    People looking to show off their newest workout gear, swole biceps from pumping that iron, strutting down the gym runway to shake it as mama made it.    Aside from the bravado, I have…

A Puppy Tale

Going back to the previous blog, we were discussing my late Chocolate Labrador Retriever Bee. About three months before Bee passed, I saw a vinyl sign placed high on a fence next to a farm field. It had all these little chocolate lab puppies on it along with a “For Sale” sign. Something in my…

Bee…a Dog

Who doesn’t love puppies?    Puppies are the epitome of joy. They are cute, fluffy, funny, awkward… even when they are bad, they are cute. They chew up the most expensive pair of shoes we have, sometimes the wall or the trim on the wall. Still, they are loved beyond words and cuter than a…

Love is in the Air

Have you ever been “in love?” Do you know that feeling? Some have called it butterflies (i.e., anxiety), others describe it as blindness to reality (i.e., rose-colored glasses). A feeling like our whole world is consumed by that one person– forgetting what lies before and what comes after is left unimaginable without them. It is…

From Surviving to Thriving

Survival. It’s a word that denotes a victory in the face of difficult odds. Surviving requires strength. It takes effort and focuses to survive. If and when we survive circumstances, were said to have overcome them. Surviving means having beaten death itself. Our loved ones have to survive if they are to return home from…