Words Matter

THE RIGHT PATH

I did it. Finally. The other day I decided in my zesty thrilling ride I call my life, I have not been taking care of nurturing the spiritual side o...

Just text that reads "You did not wake up today to be mediocre."

WHAT IS YOUR WHY?

There is a distinct momentum to running your own company with no partners, solo. Ups, downs, left, right, circles, squares, triangles, zany emotion...

Just text that reads "The first step of change is to become aware of your own bullshit>"

THE FEMALE ASPECT TO THIS COLLEGE SCANDAL

The college scandal continues at every corner I have turned this past week since the story broke. With good reason, it is a dire and despicable ex...

A young boy, with short hair and rosy cheeks, smiling up at the camera, another young boy sitting on a bench off to the side.

MORE COLLEGE PERSPECTIVE

“My mother made me take the SAT six times!” my son’s friend, Jake, announced almost four years ago in the back seat of the car I was driving. The b...

Woman in shorts and a t-shirt, volumous hair, smiling, her and her sons arm wrapped around each other, him smiling. A college poster on the ground behind them.

THE EGO OF COLLEGE

The latest college application scandal has been all over the news for the past few days. Interviews with college sports directors- the good ones, a...

An ecard. A drawing of a poised woman with hair piled on top of her head, with the text next to her reading "Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning... Satan shudders and says, "Oh shit, she's awake"!

NOT THIS WEEK

Though I have been writing for almost my entire life, for the past three years, I have been writing almost daily and putting it out for the world t...

An action shot of a woman with boxing gloves on, mid strike, with the text over her, "You only live once, you might as well be a badass!"

AN EVENING WITH PAM HOUSTON

I was meditating this morning as I have been doing almost every single morning for four months now. I sat cross legged on the hard surface of the f...

A book cover, 'The Lost Letter' by Jillian Cantor, the cover art decorated by mountains, another image of small delicate flowers, and a postage stamp with the same flowers.

NOT JUST COMIC BOOKS

There are times when a book lands in your lap and as you being reading it, a sentence or a theme reminds you of a memory. The Lost Letter by Jillia...

DOLPHINS AND JELLYFISH

It was a bright clear morning barely a wisp of a cloud in the blue sky. The temperature slowly creeping from a cool 60 to a much warmer 75 in less ...

Older man with glasses, wearing colorful headphones. Woman resting her chin on his shoulder, smiling affectionately at him.

MOMENTS OF INTIMACY

There is a baby monitor in the living room that lets anyone sitting there hear the sounds of my 101 year old grandfather when he is in his bedroom....

READING LILAC GIRLS

library or bookstore, this book is worth your time. The gift of the vigorous writing I have been doing has been the books that have landed on my ...

Bright Royal typewriter in its case, a pamphlet taped inside with photo of a woman at a type writer and the text "Your new Royal portable".

Casual to Serious

If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. -Toni Morrison “What do you write?” Jodie from W...