When Music Speaks – A song gets stuck in your head. You hum it all day. Then a story starts to form. These posts begin with music and end with meaning. Each one turns a lyric or melody into a moment worth remembering—a muse rising from the rhythm.
Part 2 of the Stranger Than Fiction Series Ever feel like your life is stranger than fiction? Or that a show (hint: Mamma Mia!) somehow believes in you more than you do? That moment when you step into the wings and realize it’s your time to fly—when you’re finding courage center stage—and that moment changes… Continue reading From Fear to Center Stage: My Mamma Mia Golden Brick Road
Part 1 of the Stranger Than Fiction Series Ever feel like you’ve poured so much of yourself into your kids that you forgot you had dreams of your own? That was me—until one family tradition handed me the golden brick on a road I didn’t even know I was building. For years, our tradition was… Continue reading Mamma Mia, Family Tradition, and The Golden Brick That Broke Me
Sometimes our children’s dreams begin with someone else’s magic number, only to discover their own constellation along the way. And this is really a story about outgrowing lucky numbers—the ones we chase, the ones we inherit, and the ones our kids eventually outgrow. The Power of 13: When Dreams Take Root My ten-year-old daughter Skylar… Continue reading From 13 to 31: Outgrowing Taylor Swift’s Lucky Number
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