The Morning Blend Interview

https://youtu.be/cfLuqfnK7rk Today was a great day. Really. Some days are like that. Some are not. That’s why I’m especially grateful for today. Molly Fay, (the host sitting closest to me) was a rockstar mentor and positive role model for me when I was just a baby in the TV biz. I will always be so

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Week 6 Memory Verse

No electronics in the bedrooms. No shoes on in the house. Bedtime is 8:30. I love rules. Perhaps I’m a control freak, but rules make me feel safe. Yes, I certainly have the better end of the bargain because I’m the one who gets to make up the rules, but for the most part everybody

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Kindness Reminds Us There are Good People in the World

When I was in kindergarten, we had a whole lesson about what to do when you find a lost wallet. We acted out make-believe scenarios in which one of us would be the person who drops the wallet, one would be the person who finds it and another would be the officer at the police

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The Best Medicine

I sat alone in a small sterile room for 75 minutes yesterday waiting to see a doctor. I had already taken my top off and was wearing the white robe with the pink collar they give to all the breast cancer patients. At some point I gave up on the straight chair and decided to

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Week 5 Memory Verse

Have you ever felt like no one could possibly understand the chaotic and complicated inner workings of your brain? Even if you could explain them, it wouldn’t make much sense to an outsider, right? They are uniquely you. Like the time I was in fourth grade and insisted on sleeping outside my dad’s bedroom door

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Service Members Treated to First-Class Kindness

I have a confession. People in uniform make me nervous. I'm fine with a doctor's coat or a fireman's jacket, but put a police officer's crisp navy shirt and peaked dress cap in front of me, and I get a little shaky. Maybe I have a deeply hidden guilty conscience. I've never had a bad

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God Changed His Mind About Me

I was driving Ben to basketball the other day when I heard this from the backseat: Mom, why did God let our friends become homeless? Oh boy. Some people close to us are going through a very tough time and my six year old has been wrestling with big issues. I took a deep breath

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