Fueled by Fire

As I opened up my blog in late July, after two years of total written silence, I have seven additional drafts now waiting for me. I am positively beaming with gratefulness! I've already published multiple poems and two blogs posts here in a little over a month. Likely, I will be setting a record this…

Be Courageous. Today.

As I finish up reading Dr. Brené Brown's phenomenal book, Daring Greatly, I am compelled to share an excerpt from her final thoughts. She starts and ends the book with a wonderful quote by Theodore Roosevelt, which I'll picture here in the blog. Her parting thoughts are to me, truthful, inspiring, hard, and beautiful. She…