Reflections is quite simply a journal blog of my thoughts. Where Being real Fridays and Beautiful Mondays come together. Podcast audio and transcripts can also be found in Reflections as well.
For a long time my family focused on making more of making Christmas memories and having outings than actual Christmas gifts. From time to time it might be one large family gift and stockings or simply just the stockings. Ironically…the stockings were often our favorite gifting we’d get. Every other year or two we’d get […]
Finding the beauty in everyday isn’t easy. But you know what that’s the beauty of it. Sometimes the hardest thing you will ever have to do is beautiful. Often, times it is the simplicity of things that stretch us. You grow. Relationships that is filled with warmth, love, and realness is beautifully hard. It is […]
I am pleased as punch to announce “Hello Camera Academy”! This online course is a beginner photography course where you learn photography basics, build your foundation, and go photograph. Creating great memories is one of my favorite things to do – but being prepared to photograph the essence, the feeling, the personality of that memory […]
Thankfulness is a choice. There it is. In black and white. It. Is. a. choice. But it is also not for just for this week. But all year around, 365 days, 4 seasons (5 if you count football 😂)- for however long we should happen to live- of which I hope will be of long […]
Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s in your wheelhouse. What are your gifting? What is yours to love? Some times that’s hard to know until you really start to pay attention and it’s honestly the things that set your heart on fire, but in the midst of some very ordinary things. Available in the Gallery […]
Photographing birds was never something I set out to do…it was simply one that I photographed naturally. They make me happy. Far too often we don’t photograph something just because it makes us happy. In this case I had looked outside the window as I need a break from the screen and noticed a flash […]
Most of us of have heard the poem by Robert Frost “The Road Less Traveled by.” It is one that I learnt when I was barely in high-school and for some reason I haven’t forgotten it. Often one that I remember in the oddest of times and it brings me comfort. Two roads diverged in […]
October is officially here and hard to believe. My list for reading has grown and seems like never ending. Time seems to speed up and I’m still learning to take those small moment of beauty. Fall is my very favorite season…it is a segway into winter where families tend to gather more because of the […]
A flower that became extrodinary Often the best photographs are on your own land. Almost every day it is waiting to be discovered, its beauty offered in the limited time it has. There were bulbs planted and I watched them grow into beautiful flowers. I grew thankful for particular golden tulip which lived in my […]
Raining of beauty of the flowers. I reached up barely able to touch the yellow petals. Never had I seen such a tree. It was beautiful the rainfalls of yellow. Happiness had swelled up inside of me and I proudly presented to my professors at my college. They hated it. So I tucked it away […]