30-Day Writing Challenge Day 26: Write about an area in your life that you’d like to improveChristmas might be over, but the Christmas story is still resting on my heart – still tugging at my conscience, still stirring my convictions. As I get ready to face a new year, I get excited thinking about all… Continue reading When the Doubt Feels Too Large
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 25: Think of any word. Search it on Google Images. Write something inspired by the 11th image. (I admit: it’s not the 11th image. But that’s because this picture, discovered upon the search of the word “imagination” was so much more inspiring than the 11th image. My apologies.) When I was… Continue reading Classroom Secrets #3: On Teaching Children to Use their Imaginations
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 24: Write about a lesson you’ve learned the hard wayThe wrapping paper has all been torn apart and discarded into the recycling bin. The tablecloth has been bundled up and put in the laundry hamper, while all the leftovers have been wrapped up and stored in the fridge. The tree now… Continue reading Hashtag Picture Perfect
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 23: A letter to someone, anyoneDear friend, I wish we still talked to each other. I wish we still made each other laugh, and I wish I didn’t have to look back on our memories with a slight sigh of regret instead of all happiness. Dear friend, I wish I didn’t… Continue reading Dear Friend: What I Need to Say
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 21: What three lessons do you want your children to learn from you? Dearest Child of Mine, Did you know that you are one of the sweetest gifts that God could ever give? You have been prayed for, wished for, and dreamed of long before you came to draw your first… Continue reading Dear Future Child of Mine
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 20: Post about three celebrity crushesSince I don’t really do the “crush” thing – that is, obsessing over famous people I don’t even know – I’ll just tweak this prompt to three celebrities I admire. And I’ll also cheat and squeeze in a fourth because I can. 1. Johnny DeppBy far… Continue reading Top Four Celebrity Favorites
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 19: Discuss your first love. (I skipped Day 17 because it was about your zodiac sign, which I don’t believe in, and I skipped Day 18 because the prompt said to list 30 facts about yourself, which I kind of already did this summer. So here we are with Day 19.)Love… Continue reading When He Was My First Love
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 16: Something that you miss[ed]There are days when your heart can break again with doubts and hurts and old lies wrapped in new whispers. Days when tears might slip down without warning over your bowl of oatmeal. Days when fear of the future clutches your heart. Days that seem long and… Continue reading This Baby Born for Sacrifice
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 15: Bullet point your whole dayFriday, December 16, 20164:55am – Alarm goes off, I jump in the shower 5:15am – I sneak a few more minutes in bed, due to utter exhaustion 5:35am – I get up, make the bed, then head to the kitchen for breakfast. This morning it’s yogurt… Continue reading A Day in the Life
30-Day Writing Challenge Day 14: Post your favorite movies that you never get tired of watching.This is probably not a comprehensive list – I’ll most likely think of more movies later that I will need to add – but this is partially a list of the movies that are a “part” of me. Movies that… Continue reading The Movies that Never Get Old
The Vintage Girl 