This post is part of a series on bravery I started a couple months ago…you can read earlier bravery posts here. Also, warning, this one gets a little more introspective and meandering than most. Have you ever had a book-slash-movie people repeatedly told you to read-slash-see but you just didn’t get it done for the longest time? I was …
Michael Jordan can play baseball if he wants to! (Or when bravery is knowing you might fail)
This post is part of a series on bravery I started a couple months ago…you can read earlier bravery posts here. So I basically have the coolest siblings in the ENTIRE world. It’s incredibly rare that we’re all four home at the same time, but a couple weeks back, we all found ourselves in good old Webster City, Iowa, at …
A peek behind my writing curtain (Or when bravery is being honest)
This post is part of a Friday series on bravery…because it’s the topic on my mind lately. And I guess I can’t help writing about it. You can check out previous bravery posts here, here and here. An interesting thing happened last week when I was rewriting a scene for my spring 2015 release, From the Start. I was writing …
What I learned from the Man in Black. (Or when bravery is saying “My story isn’t over.”)
(This is part of a Friday series on bravery. Because it’s the topic on my mind lately. If you missed last week’s post, you can read it here.) I mentioned last week that I recently took a weekend trip to Nashville. It was, in a word, FUN. On our last day there, a couple friends and I (shoutout to Clay …
The hot, sweaty, SCARED cowboy. (Or when being brave is looking out the window)
I think I’m about to break a major blogging rule. I’m going to *gasp* process some personal things I’ve been thinking about in blog form—all having to do with bravery. I wrote about bravery a couple weeks ago and ever since, have been reading this amazing book called Let’s All Be Brave and I just have ALL these thoughts. So …
Lauren Bacall, Cary Grant, & how to be brave.
Headlines have been crowded this week with news of Robin Williams’ death. And rightly so. The man is legend and his passing, heartbreaking in more ways than one. But another celebrity passed away this week—an actress from Hollywood’s golden era and a personal favorite of mine: Lauren Bacall. And here’s the part of the post where I get all Stern …