Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?

I’m sitting on the couch with my then-boyfriend on New Year’s Eve. We are with his mother a petite and loving woman who I respect and trust. Someone mentions my eighteenth birthday which is about a week away and right then, I get smacked with a realization: I have no life plan. People considered me…

Dreams Like Strings of Lights

What are you dreaming of? It has long been my goal to work for myself. In my early years, I’d been trained that a person got up before the sun, went to work for eight or nine hours and came home beat. For this, you got a paycheck at the end of the week, or two,…

Dream House

I share a lot about having a dream. They’re mighty powerful motivators. They can help you get through a tough job. Dreaming about how you’ll use your degree helps you get through four years of college. My dad was a dreamer. He wanted to build a house and live in the country. He had a…