I totally agree. Blind obedience is a more accurate way to phrase it. Life is definitely a balancing act.

Communication (both giving and receiving) can be extremely tough. There are so many times that people don't intend things to come across as they do. Especially if you don't have enough experience with

That can be a tough one.

Thanks for reading Eliana! : )

The week is going well on this end, I hope it is for you too! Thanks!

Thank you! I hope you've been well!

Thank you Nancy. Yes, time is the great deceiver, and I think that's why it's so dangerous. We think we have forever. When we come to understand our true mortality is when we're born the second time and

I'm of the opinion that our path was preordained before birth (maybe we even chose it) but we also have free will to make decisions and even deviate from that chosen path if we wish. Thank you! I'm glad

I think it's so important to remember as we get older that we can always better ourselves.

The Chronic sparks so many memories for me! I think the summer that came out was the best summer of my life. I was a young adult, making a decent salary at my first real job but didn't have any major

All I could do was smile reading this. : ) I didn't grow up in a house where it was common to read either. Thankfully I got the "reading bug" from an elderly neighbor and then really leaned into

That's great! I would totally reread The Chronicles of Narnia at 53! : ) I really enjoyed the Harry Potter series also.

Those were very different times back when we were children. If you weren't close to a library you were out of luck! Thankfully, we had a neighbor who always bought us books for our birthdays and Christmas.

My mom had a lot to do with me reading so early. I was the first born so I think she had more time to spend reading to me. I'm glad that being around all of those books in the library didn't diminish your

Thank you for reading it, Eliana!

That is all so true! I was thinking of the old Cherokee story when I wrote this one. I was thinking about how one singular decision can alter the course of the rest of your entire life. I hope you've had

We didn't realize until we ran the clothes washer for the first time, unfortunately. The water just reactivated the mold. Appliances are super expensive, pretty much everything here is 2-4x more expensive

Wow, I'm trying to wrap my head around his logic but I guess that's a total waste of time. Lol.

We had the best timing imaginable for our move because these Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals were happening after we started moving in. We found the clothes washer in the new house was a "mold bomb",

Our elementary textbooks were so outdated in the 1970's. Most of them seemed like they were written in the 1950's.