Teach what I’ve learned | Share what I know

A little bit about me:

I was born and raised in Colorado and love any time spent in those majestic Rocky Mountains. I married my high school sweetheart, Tom. He’s still my best friend after all these years.

Along our journey, we’ve lived in Colorado, Texas, on both US coasts and in Germany. With more than 14 moves in our pocket, you can imagine we’ve met incredible people, heard amazing stories, and had some grand adventures.

We have three children and three grandchildren; you’ll read some fun stories about their escapades in my blogs and books.

A favorite pursuit of mine is to speak to live audiences and share some life-lessons to those who want to listen. I’ve had the great honor of speaking at numerous events throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Whenever I hear a speaker share vulnerably and with honesty about their struggles, it helps me feel less alone and insecure about mine. My prayer is that my listeners will feel similarly as they hear me.

At heart, I’m a storyteller. I weave real-life stories into learnable truths, and strive to make them practical and personal. And funny.

Who can’t learn from the mother who scolded a police officer about his bad attitude as he quietly wrote her a ticket? Am I the only one who has dropped a giant bowl of orange Jell-O on the floor at Thanksgiving? There must be a lesson in there somewhere. Surely you know someone who has fallen in a theater production and ripped off her skirt or has fallen off a horse and laughed so hard she wet herself?

Ah, we love hearing those stories; they impact us, make us laugh and hopefully, they teach lessons to help us grow. 

Crazy happens. Of course it does - and yet, our response to it is key. I’m sometimes faulted for being too optimistic about such matters. When I stop to think about it, I find it’s true most of the time, I am that glass half-full kind of person. It definitely beats the alternative.