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thankful thursdays: week one

January 3, 2013 confessions, thankful thursdays

  In Ann Voskamp‘s book, One Thousand Gifts, she chronicles how a friend challenged her to write down one thousand “gifts” she saw in her everyday life. This transformed into a blog with thousands of followings and a whole host of people who do “thankful Thursdays.” As I look at 2012 and forward into 2013, one of the things that resonates with me most is the need to be thankful for every gift in your life—whether that gift is an empty gas tank or a sunny day in January (seriously, we’ve had like four sunny days in a row—I’m amazed.) I’ve been tracking my gifts off and on for the...

confessions: 2013 isn’t what I expected (so far)

January 2, 2013 confessions, Photography

January 1st began full of promise and hope—it was a beautiful day here in the Pacific Northwest. Sunshine anytime between October and April is considered a small miracle. I’d mapped out my goals for the year, re-launched this blog and even managed to tidy up the house. But as life tends to do, everything got tipped. Our main (and most reliable) truck broke down. Now, props to the AAA guy who managed the F350 crew-cab, long-bed dually truck with ease. As I followed behind the tow truck with my husband, it was easy to fall into despair. Great, more truck repairs. (If you know of my history with blowing up...

confessions: here we go

January 1, 2013 confessions

Yes, it’s tacky to start something on January 1st, just because it is the beginning of a new year. Every new day is an opportunity and every new day is just as good of an excuse. Alas, this worked out best for my personal calendar and vacation schedules. So call me tacky. 🙂 Heck, let’s throw in a cliched photo and call it good: This blog will be something different and new. This blog is me, unscripted and unfiltered. (Just kidding, there will be filters, I promise.) But let’s all confess: we’re never what we say we are. We’re never really what we portray online. We’re never what we really...

a time of transition, change and growth

December 18, 2012 confessions, Horses, Writing

Dearest blog readers, Back in October, I confessed I needed a break from blogging and time to refocus on what I needed to do with this website and my writing career. Since then, I participated in NaNoWriMo (writing 50,000 words in 30 days) and completed that monstrous task. I’ve also refocused and redesigned nicolemillerbooks.com. There is still much work to be done. I’m switching over my email subscriber system, and pre-apologize for any technical glitches. That just comes with the territory. There will be new pages, new reference links and a whole new focus on the power of horses on humans. Beginning in January, I’ll begin blogging daily about my “confessions” —...