SCRAPPIN' ON THE RANCH

"Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge. You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you. You are so much more than your mistakes. Allow your truth to emerge. Your truth cannot emerge buried under a mountain of guilt and regret. Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope. Hope is li

"Character not circumstance makes the person." A tree fell down in the middle of Stone Roller Road on my way to announce 220 student names graduating from Winona Senior High School on Friday night. I fell in a hole while digging a hole and slightly sprained my ankle on Saturday on the ranch. On Sunday, I was headed back from Winona and the LeBaron decided to take a little snooze on 61 which resulted in needing to be towed home. A lot of people would have cried, yelled, sc

"Your perception may not be my reality." I have been thinking about this a lot lately in my personal and professional life. When new people come to see my home/my business I am often times nervous because of what I believe they perceive. Many thoughts - my own perceptions of what they will think/believe rush through my mind. "She has it made." "Look at her house/the ranch/the land." "Must be nice to have this." Sometimes those are my perceptions of what people are thinking;