From Angie

Thanks for Joining me on the Journey. I’d be honored to hear from you.
Share with me your story, your journey and how you pushed forth. Remember, we’re all in this together.

Refined by Fire: Long-Awaited Confessions

From caring Facebook messages to phone calls and texts, hundreds have expressed their love and concern for me, gently inquiring while refraining fr...

A Lesson Learned in Snow...

In our personal lives, it happens more often than we care to admit. Whether you’re on the receiving end and still frostbitten from an icy storm of ...

Friend to Friend: The Best Advice for 2020

I also have a confession to make: a few months ago, I’m not so sure I had any advice to offer anyone.

Foolish Games: Why We Keep Our Hearts Hidden...

But you always have a choice when it comes to your heart and how you display it. We all do. We can love half-hearted or wholly. Reserved or wreckl...

Do You Hear What I Hear? (Or More Importantly, Did You SAY It? )

This year has also been extremely tough. I’m not quite ready to explain the devil in the details, so you’ll just have to trust me. There have been ...

The Perfect Foundation: My Endless Quest

For the past several years, I’ve been on a quest to find the perfect makeup foundation. UGH. Can any other lady in my blog universe relate?

The Quest for the Holy Grail…What I Learned from Indiana Jones

I never imagined I'd learn a lesson from Indiana Jones, but alas, God is full of surprises..

Pass the Eggnog: How to Cope When Traditions Change

But what if some of these traditions change? What then? How do we react when grandparents go to Heaven, loved ones move away and it appears that th...

Easy as Pie? Not So Much...

I felt so confident in my baking skills that I decided to add a “secret” ingredient: bourbon. I’d seen it listed in several pecan pie recipes and ...

Like a Moth to a Flame: The Pros and Cons of Getting Too Close to the Heat

Recuperating from knee surgery, I sat out on the patio and watched a stray hummingbird moth look for last vestige of food, knowing it would be in v...

When Fall Leaves Us Longing for More...

What about you? What things leave you longing for more, yet you’re too scared to go after them? Most of us wrestle with something, the difference ...

Knee Deep in Pain: Lessons Learned from Puncture Wounds

This author-turned-designer is learning a valuable lesson after experiencing a little setback after leg surgery: I can’t be stubborn, press on and ...