• Shine!

    Shine!

    We turned off all of the lights in the house and stood around our wondrous man-made evergreen tree. My boys’ eyes sparkled in joy as they anticipated the coming Christmas season. I, on the other hand, settled in to revel in one of my very favorite feelings of Christmas: the warmth of clear, white lights Read more

  • To Be Fearless with Love

    As we enter the Christmas season, I begin begging my husband to watch “just one more Hallmark show” with me. While I know which parts of the movies I love and which movies are my all-time favorites, it wasn’t until recently that I discovered the one simple truth that draws me in to each show Read more

  • Lost at Sea – Lessons from “Chesapeake Shores: Forward to the Past”

    Lost at Sea – Lessons from “Chesapeake Shores: Forward to the Past”

    “If you really care about something, you don’t walk away from it,” Mick warned Trace near the end of last Sunday’s episode of Chesapeake Shores. Yet, at the very end of the episode, we are left with seven people floating on an island of anger, seeming to emotionally “We are left with seven people floating Read more

  • Genius and Dreams – An interview with writer and associate producer Kirsten Hansen

    Genius and Dreams – An interview with writer and associate producer Kirsten Hansen

    Once in a long while, we happen across another person who motivates us to be better at what we do – to be more passionate, more joyful, and more in awe of the beauty that surrounds us. As we anticipate the final three episodes of Season 3 of Chesapeake Shores many Chessies have discovered one such Read more

  • Being Bree – Lessons from “Chesapeake Shores”

    Being Bree – Lessons from “Chesapeake Shores”

    Today, I’m Bree – I closed the door on the past, but I hung onto the key. Tonight, I’ll open that door and step right back through, back into a period of four years that still makes my knees shake and my hands grow cold. We know a bit about what’s coming in tomorrow night’s Read more

  • Making Purple – Lessons from “Chesapeake Shores”

    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, Read more