tammie's Blog
Encouraging words for the journey
Stop Calling Yourself Skunk Cabbage – Names are Important
What do you do? This everyday small talk starter is a loaded question. Names and what we call ourselves are important. Typically when it’s asked, people want to know what job you hold to pay your mortgage. Your job title has probably rolled off your tongue many times...
Three Things Thursday—Three Times My Decisions Didn’t Make Sense
For Three Things Thursday this week: I’d like to share three things I’ve done over the years that maybe didn’t make sense to many people. 1) Selling my house Years ago, I bought a little house and settled in for what I thought would be the one I’d own forever. Then a...
Discover One Big Secret About Your Life—It Life Doesn’t Have to Make Sense
Sometimes things don't turn out the way we plan. That's okay because our life doesn't have to make sense. We all have dreams and ideas about what our lives should be, but what does it mean when things seemingly go off the rails? In the early '90s, my life felt...
Three Things Thursday – Novels I’m Loving Right Now
This week on Three Things Thursday, I'm sharing with you three recent novels I loved. 1) Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen Sarah writes the kind of stories I wish I could write. Her treatment of sensitive topics keeps her novels current and relevant. The whimsy she...
Secure in Love—What a Feral Cat Can Teach Us About Having a Safe Place
We all need a safe place. That doesn't mean a physical location, although it can. People need to have people to whom they can open up to about things that affect them. A place where they can share and be known without judgment. A feral cat showed up in the yard about...
Three Things Thursday – What I Remembered While on Vacation
On this Three Things Thursday, I want to share what I remembered while on vacation last week. 1) Other people don’t see me as I see myself. I should know this by now, but I’ve let my self-talk influence my world. My trip combined sightseeing and a writer’s retreat...
Do You Feel Stuck? Here’s One Quick Way to Get Back on Track
Do you feel stuck? My friend, author Kathi Lipp, once said, “We get to decide when we start fresh.” And oh my, did that resonate with me when I was feeling stuck. Read that again, friends. We get to decide! Just because our lives are one way and have been for as...
Imprisoned Memories – A Short Story
While my chosen writing genre is contemporary fiction, I love to dabble in other genres. Short stories are fun to write and a way to hone my fiction skills. I wrote this short story for an NYC Midnight Flash Fiction contest. In these contests, at 11:59 pm Eastern Time...
Goals: Know What You’re Working Toward
There is a video game called Ravenhill that I like to play. Several different activities ask the player to make color combinations to move objects, break blocks, explode rockets, or pop bubbles. Sometimes the list includes...
The Time God Gave Me 6 Kids: When God says, “not that, but this”
Do you ever wonder how God decides which prayers to answer? You know, when you’ve poured out your heart to Him. Your prayers are for good things that line up with scripture. There’s really no reason God shouldn’t give you what you ask. No earthly, human reason anyway....
Turtle Girl: Loving the Unlovable
Once there was a girl who had been hurt by one… two… a lot of people. She tried to grow a shell, thick as a turtle’s, to keep out the hurt, but the hurt lived with her inside the shell. The hurt mocked and taunted her, and she searched for ways to drown it out. She...
The Game of Life – A Short Story
Life behind bars wasn’t as bad as I had heard. The people loved me. I made them laugh and wowed them when I raised my hand to greet them with a big high five. I was spoiled and pampered. It really was a pretty cool time. I knew the time would end at some point, so I...
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