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Stuck in the Tar Pits
Shareby Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder We’ve all been depressed. We’ve all grieved. We’ve all gotten stuck. That’s a common human experience. But there’s a point when you must recognize that life goes on and something’s got to change. There is nothing harder than putting one foot in front of the other when you find yourself [...]
Just a Reminder
Share Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. – Michelangelo
Eat Dessert First
Share 10 years of empowering people to reclaim themselves after a broken childhood! Featuring a dinner of designer cupcakes (eaten first) followed by gourmet hot dogs & lemonade! and the talents of The Itinerant Locals, Chuck Dodson lip synching with puppets, Attorney Brent Miller’s artistic rendition of “101 Fast Food Jokes” book, The Courage Tree [...]
Amma’s Skillet
Shareby Sallie Culbreth Amma’s Salisbury Steak was what Anthony craved each lonely Sunday afternoon. The college cafeteria’s lame attempt at Sunday dinner accomplished nothing more that to remind him that he was hundreds of miles away from his grandmother’s ample arms. Massachusetts was not the place for a southern boy raised by a woman of [...]
Reflections on “Mother”
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder This will be the first Mother’s Day since my Mom died. She crossed over in November, 2011. I’ve thought a lot about her since her death, trying to wrap it all up with a nice bow to summarize her life, but no one can be summarized neatly, especially my mom. [...]
Sometimes I Cry – But Mostly I Don’t
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder I recently stayed with a friend during a cross-country journey. Many conversations took place while I was with her, including the story of her father’s military service in Vietnam. In going through slides he’d taken of people and the war-torn countryside, she found one particular slide that had the following [...]
Just a Reminder
Share Find one wholly unexpected kind thing to do tomorrow and just do it. Notice what happens to your mood. -Dr. Martin E.P. Seligman Flourish – A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being (p 21)
World Hunger and Other Quandaries
ShareBy Sallie Culbreth, M.S. Founder When I was a kid, I worried a lot about suffering and felt it was somehow my responsibility to find solutions that would end it. I worried about world hunger, mostly. I’ll never forget that great epiphany I had when I was about eight that the simple solution to starvation [...]
Just a Reminder
Share God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. – Genesis 1:31 Hebrew Bible
