The Fantastic Ms. Lindsey For most of my life instead of trying to figure out who I was, I worried about how people perceived me. I got it in my head somewhere that if I looked the part I WAS the part. In school, I tried...
I recently had the most amazing trip to New York City with the United Nations Foundation and the Shot@Life campaign. I have so many things to share about the trip. About how much I learned. About the amazing people that were there. About how incredibly...
I’ve struggled with feeling “enough” for most of my life. As a kid, I was told repeatedly that I was a mistake, a bad girl, that there were many, many things wrong with me. That I would never catch up, never fit in, never be...
‘i am enough’ at first sight the saying 'i am enough' sounds too pretentious, too overblown to me. and maybe there lies a key. when i grew up, i was told to be modest, self-effacing, gracious, and polite. not in a bad way, but in a good...
A long time ago, back in my earliest days of blogging, I started a blog called Picture This; geared toward moms about - what else? - photography. I had no idea at the time, that the gig at ClubMom would end up being the start...
It’s so easy to not feel like enough. It’s so easy to focus on our shortcomings, our faults, the cracks in our being. The things that people might see. The things that might make someone love us a little less. Why is that so easy?...
Rhythm of enough. Chanting gently lulls. A mantra sweetly moves into a rhythm and groove. A little girl perched along the sideline, under the glow of the Friday night lights. A little blonde chickadee, cheering her beloved pops and his boys on. Enough.You are Enough. The chant hums melting into...
I AM ENOUGH I am. I breathe. In more shallowly than out. I am more than what you see, I am more than what I say, I am more than what they spit. I am skin and flesh and spark and thought. I am soft. I am here. I am fear sometimes, bundled up...
I have been musing on this post for quite some time, highly anticipating my leg of the Shot@Life Blogust Blog Relay for Good since it was announced with a video that gave me chills. What would I share? What one story could I possibly tell that...
There. Will be a time. In your. Life. When you will be. Stripped bare. In ways you cannot. Imagine. There will be a time when the fire comes. For you. This is a story. About. Me. When my fire came. Calling. But it is. About....