Conquer Your Mountains
A few summers ago, I took a trip with my family to go hiking in the desert. I enjoy the outdoors, and hiking is both relaxing and taxing enough to get my blood flowing. It was a wonderful trip! The weather was perfect—not too hot or too cold, and clouds gave us some covering from…
I’d like to tell you something about myself, something true. Something I love. I love people. I love them. I love how they are so very, very different, and yet so fundamentally the same. As Gwen Stefani so eloquently puts it, “Once in a while I sit back and think about the planet. Most of the time…
I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness lately, about what it means to be happy. Have you ever wondered how some people can have nothing and be totally and completely content and even joyful, while others have everything material that they could ever want and still be miserable? I stumbled upon this TED Talk a…
My grandma was the homecoming queen her senior year of high school. It is not surprising when you look at old pictures of her with her big, brown eyes, oval face, and curling chocolate locks. Still, as beautiful as she was, her kindness was probably the thing that won her the vote. You’ve heard the…