An Apple for Teacher An apple for teacher…Finley wanted to give her teacher an apple she picked at the orchard.But instead of it being in her backpack the next morning, I found it back on the counter.She had decided not to bring it to her teacher because she was scared that the other kids might […]
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Who Will Hold Your Hand At The End? Who will hold your hand at the end? Whose hand will you hold? This week, my mom held the hand of her childhood friend, Janne, as she took her final breaths. They were friends from childhood and because Janne never had kids, we became her adopted nieces.Pancreatic
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves I felt my stomach do a slow flip.My heart rate increase.My mind started racing – the thoughts coming in faster and faster.I felt anxiety bust down the door and order the narrator of the destructive stories I tell myself to start telling the:Story of not good enough.Story of will never
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Life Happens in the Pause I was reminded today of a incredibly important life lesson: look before you sit- thistles in the butt hurt.Oh and that the power of the pause is hard to put into words.The weather was perfect today.My “take advantage of this weather” to do list was not completed.The sun hadn’t finish
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Don’t Put Off Kindness Normalize kind acts- don’t wait for tragedy. When I heard that a neighbor wasn’t feeling good, the girls got tasked with making hand rolled noodles while I harvested veggies from the garden and heated up bone broth to make soup to walk down the road with. So often it is when
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They Deserve Better Did you know…Children deserve more than just 4% of the total cancer research funding. Prostate cancer (patient average age at diagnosis, 66 years), receives more research funding from the National Cancer Institute (federal funded) than ALL childhood cancers put together (patient average age at diagnosis, 6 years). They deserve treatment that isn’t
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What We Do When No One is Watching It’s what we do when we think no one is watching that matters. Because it is in those moments that your character is seen. It is in those moments that values are lived or hypocrisy comes out to play. We all know of those in our community
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Appreciating the Good We Have I never want to take for granted wearing pajama pants during meetings.But I will.Because humans are remarkably good at adapting, moving forward and chasing things we don’t have instead of appreciating what we do.When the power goes out, when you lose water, you gain appreciation of being able to just
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Leading by Example A team of champions is stronger than a championship team.Just as you want a team of leaders not a team with a leader.This morning I got to witness what it looks like to have a team of champions, led by a coaching staff that understands that leadership is a lifestyle not a
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Let Fear Advise, Not Dictate How do you handle fear? I felt fear creep in as I headed out on an early morning run a few days after a woman was kidnapped and murdered while running early in the morning in Memphis. Was it safe for me to go running this early or was I
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