Author: Elise Hird

Would you rather…? Almost everyone has played this game at some point in their life. Would you rather eat an ant covered cricket or run through a sticker field barefoot? Horrible options! Why would we play this ridiculous game? Not all of us do, but, we all are faced with decisions in our lives. Some…

Mind racing, foot tapping, I just noticed that I’ve been clicking my pen and I can’t seem to stop. How long have I been making noise? I’m starting to feel like a caricature from The Clash song “Should I Stay or Should I Go”, but instead of agonizing over a lover, it’s my mind that…

Oh those eyes! Having done anything to create that look in my child’s eyes hurts my heart. There are times though, that we see reflected back at us, the feelings of hurt, anger, disgust, and scorn. They hit us like daggers and often it is a surprise attack and we don’t see them coming. Ignorance…

Starting something new can be scary, daunting even. Thoughts of “how?”, “when?”, “why?”, basically all the question words we learned in 3rd grade come flying into our heads, but with exclamation marks behind the question marks. It can take some time to get over those doubts and fears and push forward to remind ourselves of…

Twists, turns, rough back trails, smooth overrun highways, and unexpected cliffs. These are what make up the paths we travel through in life.  These are how we are tested and tried, we find out what kind of grit we can muster and where we will break.  Although most of us stretch and reach for perfection,…