You know how sometimes life feels like it’s passing you by at a million miles an hour?? Sometimes I feel like I race through life…wishing away the bad times and not enjoying the good times enough, instead of appreciating each moment and finding joy in the little things. Too often I forget my purpose and […]

I’m sitting in a coffee shop on this rainy day in Blacksburg on the edge of Virginia Tech’s campus drinking a pumpkin spice latte and feeling a little like a college student again as I type away (and pin things) on my laptop surrounded by my notebooks and planner…When I come back to Blacksburg, it […]

I was reading my friend Amanda’s new blog last week and got to the bottom of it where she wrote that she was nominating me for the Liebster Award! I had never heard of it before, but apparently (from what I found through google) the Liebster Award is given to newer bloggers and was created […]

For my 20th birthday I got this devotional from Ryan’s parents called Jesus Calling…it has daily short devotionals and the one for September 5 has a line that says: “I can bring beauty out of the ashes of lost dreams. I can glean joy out of sorrow.” 6 years ago today, September 5, 2006, I […]