Five Minute Friday: Grateful

Five Minute Friday: Grateful

I’m in South Africa. And sometimes I can barely catch my breath at the ache and the wonder of it. Sometimes it feels like I can barely capture it in words. But I keep trying, with every spare minute. Want to take five minutes with me and just write without...
Five Minute Friday: Grateful

Five Minute Friday: Welcome

I’m in South Africa this week. Well, for the next three actually. I’m processing the amazingness of being home again after three years away. So, I’m stealing five minutes in between crocodiles, mountain lions, roaring kids and fifty guinea pigs or so...
Five Minute Friday: Grateful

Five Minute Friday: Wonder

The end of the week – a good time for few words. Want to take five minutes with me and see which ones bubble to the surface? Let’s just write and not worry if it’s just right or not. Here’s how we do it: 1. Write for 5 minutes flat with no...
Five Minute Friday: Grateful

Five Minute Friday: Home

{Turns out it only takes one minute to read my five minutes out loud. Some of you asked, so here it is: click to listen to my five minutes on Home} This is the time of the week when we steal those five minutes while the kids are fingerpainting the dining room table,...
Five Minute Friday: Grateful

Five Minute Friday: Every Day

I like chocolate. I like words. And I never tell my chocolate what’s wrong with it, how it could have been improved, and how disappointed I am in it before I eat it. I. Just. Eat. It. That’s what we do around here on Fridays. We eat words. Straight up....