Tag: life
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Lets Crowd Heaven

Let’s make heaven crowded. Let’s invite the kind people, the mentally ill people, the downtrodden people, the confused people, the loud people, the questioning people, the black, white, and yellow people. Let’s invite the transgender people, and the foreign people. Let’s ask the all of the imperfect people. Lets take with us both the prostitutes…
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Planting Seeds in Concrete – Lessons from a Burnout

Burnout has become a prominent, recognized, and shared experience worldwide. Its one of those super terrible seasons of life so many of us experience, but don’t talk about. This is a letter about overcoming, and more importantly, learning from burnout.
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The Uphill Battle of the Modern Milspo

A look at the how the Executive Order addressing hiring military spouses is a leap forward for female equality, families, and national security. Your common military spouse workforce questions answered.
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A Letter to the Person Leaving Home for the First Time

A grounded letter to my first time travelers, my dreamers, my soul searchers, and my broken-hearted readers searching the globe for answers.
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On Taking a Knee

A response to the Take a Knee movement seen on the fields this football season from a die-hard military supporter, and a thoughts about addressing issues of inequality.
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My Responsibility Mantra

Pasted to the inside of one of my many journals is this little mantra, that helped me to find balance in all of the things I wanted to accomplish never seemed like they were being accomplished fast enough.
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A Substitute Teacher’s Protest Against Self Doubt

We have an epidemic of self-doubt in our culture, best demonstrated by students in the everyday classroom setting. Though my role in students life is brief, my students and I have figured out how to change this way of thinking, in under 5 minutes.
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Where This Blog Begins

Several years ago I was caught between a prayer, a cardboard moving box, and a bottle of wine. This blog is a result of that. Read how this whole thing got started.
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Do it afraid – The courage to get up and go

Fear is simply an emotion – a powerful one at that, but one that you can do anything with when you don’t feed it.