turninglifespaiges

It’s amazing how music can bring people together to help someone going through tough times. Shinedown is one of the bands that helps me through difficult obstacles. I don’t have as many as other people, but the hurdles look awfully high and almost impenetrable sometimes. This song has been playing in my head the past…

Today I remembered the last day I walked through my childhood home, the last home my parents lived in together. I remember when my parents brought us to see our potential new home when my sister and I were 13 and 14. It was bigger than any house we’d lived in before: 2 stories, 5…

“Love is like the wind, you can’t see it, but you can feel it.”  A Walk to Remember, Nicolas Sparks. One of my favorite quotes. It always brings me back to standing on the dock at my aunt’s house in Georgia overlooking the coastal waters. My mother and her siblings grew up in that house.…

My fitness journey has been going better than planned. 🙂 This is the first time I’ve been solely dedicated to changing my lifestyles; eating right and working out a majority of the days in the week. It’s really paying off. I’ve lost 9 pounds over around a month and I feel so much better. I…

As life goes on, time gets shorter. We don’t know how long or short our lifeline is. We have yet to uncover our life’s path and destination. There’s so much to do with so little time. I was on my afternoon work out today during an army conference call (talk about multitasking), and I noticed…

When I was younger, I used to dance for a studio. My grandmother taught ballet, so it was natural for her to want my parents to enroll me and my sister Savannah in classes. We happened to luck out and know a dance studio owner in our area that my grandmother actually taught, and started…