Reflections

Painting stairs can be tricky because you are stuck at either the top or the bottom when you finish. For basement stairs, it’s best to start at the bottom and work your way to the top. So often in life we find ourselves stuck at the bottom. The good news …

Disappointment is something everybody knows and can understand at some level. I know for myself disappointment is often self-inflicted. I get in my head the idea of how I want things to be, tell no one, and then when they don’t happen I feel a deep hurt and sadness. Mind …

‘One foot summer’ might sound a little odd, but for my daughter, that is exactly what the summer had been. Two weeks in, she broke her ankle, had surgery, and sported a pink cast and then a walking boot for the remainder of the summer. We talked about her one …

We couldn’t get the light to turn on in the room we were in today. Turns out, it was on a remote and one push of a button was all it took for the light to come on. We all have times when our buttons get pushed. Sometimes by circumstances, …

Sometimes we will use a jack to help lift different things. Using a jack to raise the drywall up to the ceiling sure makes the job go faster. We all like to be lifted up. Put-downs never help the way pick-me-ups do for our day, our mood, and our confidence. …

Hinges are used to open and close a door. We all have things that unhinge us. The person in the line taking too long, the cashier not working fast enough, the person who can’t drive in front of us. Sometimes I wonder if getting unhinged is really worth it. Everyone …

Some days there is a lot of measuring to do. All those little lines matter and make a difference in how many times you have to cut the piece. So often we work so hard to measure up to everyone else’s expectations of us, or what we think they expect …

When painting high places we use an extension pole. This helps in reaching without needing a ladder every time. I am sure many of you can relate to over extending yourself. We are so quick to try and do it all. We push ourselves to our limit all for fear …

Boxing changed my life. Before my cancer diagnosis I had many gym memberships. I would walk in and try to fit in by working on machines I had no clue what they did, or running on the treadmill until I couldn’t take it anymore and would leave. It felt like …

The tools only work when the batteries are charged. One job is to get the chargers plugged in so the batteries are ready. We all need to recharge our battery sometimes. This means we have to say no to commitments and over extending yourself so that we can say yes …