“Oh, the joy of nothing is a sweeter something And I will hold it in
my heart. Yes, I will hold it in my heart.” –Foy Vance Exactly one
year ago my family moved to a new state. I felt inter...
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the
end.” –Fernando Sabino I was standing over the shrimp dip when a
family friend approached me. Although he was known to as...
“But I'll kneel down, Wait for now And I'll kneel down, Know my
ground And I will wait, I will wait for you.” –Mumford & Sons At
the beginning of any school year, there are always quite a f...
This summer my family moved to a new state. Over the past couple
months, I’ve repeatedly heard my younger daughter say, “I still
don’t feel like this is home. It feels like we’re on a tri...
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home
and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ” –Lin Yutang One
of the first things I did when I moved to my new state t...
There is a moving van parked in front of my house today. This is the
house where I let life slip right through my multi-tasking fingers,
but it is also the house where I grasped what mattered wit...
“Are you Rachel Stafford?” she asked me over the low roar of party
conversation and festive music. When I nodded, the woman with a very
familiar face said, “You are the emergency contact fo...
A few weeks ago, I celebrated a birthday. I was overwhelmed with
kindness from all directions…family, friends, even strangers who
have become part of my life through this blog. Several of my cl...
