Category: Insights
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Making Purple – Lessons from “Chesapeake Shores”
You know that feeling you get when you gobble down a giant bowl of vanilla ice cream at a party and then wash it down with a tall glass of ice cold lemonade? Yuck ! I don’t either, but I can imagine that it would make my stomach churn as my body attacks the curdled,…
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Wings of Anticipation – Lessons from “Chesapeake Shores: The Rock Is Going to Roll”
“When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts…it’s like soaring through a sunset. I think…
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Your Lead Rope is Still Intact – Chesapeake Shores “The Way We Were”
“Maybe being strong is not who I actually am,” Abby admitted to Jess in a little heart-to-heart during last week’s episode of Chesapeake Shores. In just that one phrase, we gain incredible insight into Abby and how she views herself. Like so many of us, she hides her insecurities beneath an armor of strength –…
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Love Came Softly – Life Lessons from “When Calls the Heart”
“Sometimes, love comes softly….” PC: Crown Media, LLC I remember falling in love with Jack Thornton and Elizabeth Thatcher. It was a love that crept up on me, drawing me in episode after episode until I had watched the first two seasons in under a week. I stayed up until all hours of the night…
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Cocoons of Change – Life Lessons from “When Calls the Heart”
Look out your window. Is it springtime where you are? Here, the butterflies dance among the blue lupine and hover over the sweet-smelling new grasses covering our hillside. As a teen, butterflies represented anxiety for me. I always “got butterflies” before I had to do a class presentation. My mom told me that we don’t…