Outer Space Take a moment, wherever you are reading this, and look around you. What do you notice? What catches your eye first, second, third? What sounds come to your ears? Are there scents? And how about textures– what are you sitting on, touching, tasting? These are the things that make your “outer space” at […]
Recently I attended a conference in Atlanta. Even though I live in the South, I can count on two fingers how many times I’ve been to/through Atlanta. My hotel was right next to the conference hotel, but I didn’t want to pay the $30/day hotel parking fee. So I decided to leave my car in […]
The story goes that a reporter conducting an interview with Thomas Edison asked him about the development process of inventing the light bulb and why it had taken Edison thousands of attempts before finally “getting it right.” Edison’s reply? “Those weren’t failures. I simply did not realize there were 10,000 steps to creating the light […]
Recently I was invited to take part in a resource fair for a university-sponsored autism walk. The location was several hours away in a city I’d never traveled to before. Being unfamiliar with the exact route between points A and B, I made sure to pack my GPS along for the ride. My trusty GPS […]
Even before we are conceived, there are expectations. Our parents expect to become pregnant (perhaps not at that very moment, but someday). As we grow in our mother’s womb, there are more expectations—boy or girl. After birth, even more expectations—how soon will we smile? crawl? walk? talk? And the expectations continue piling on and on […]
It occurs to me that perhaps the greatest fear of writers, and people for that matter, isn’t that words will someday fail to come to them. The greatest fear may be that no one will want to listen. And we all have a story to tell. Each and every one of us. Without a doubt, […]
I’m so glad you’ve stopped by to read my blog! This is the first post, and I have to admit that it’s a bit intimidating. I hope you’ve explored the rest of my site. One of my main goals for my website is to provide practical, useful, and interesting information to those who visit. I […]
