Francine Tirrell

What makes you enough? This question sucker punched me a couple of weeks ago. I was laid off from my full-time job in December. In theory, I have been practi...

I typically leave my house early to go to work. Most days it is still dark out. The other day when I left, it was still dark, and the sky was covered with wh...

A few years ago, my husband Bill and I went skydiving. Skydiving is something that I never had the urge to do. I am not an adrenaline junkie. I don’t like he...

Recently, a woman at work walked into my office and I noticed that her hair was done differently. When I asked what she had done, her response was, “I change...

Dear Dakota, Saying Happy Birthday to you should be said with joy and not a heavy heart. You should be ten years old today. Every year without you is tough, ...

Happy New Year -2014 As I sit here on New Year’s Day, I think about the past year. WOW! What a year it has been. I also think that in less than two weeks, i...

The other day, I received a voice mail from my friend Kelly, inviting me to try out some fitness classes that her club offers. I e-mailed her and told her t...

What is fear? Why do we have it? How do we get passed it? Last year, my husband and I were at an event that included a silent auction. One of the prizes was ...

Dear Dakota, Happy Birthday!! You would be nine years old this year. I can’t even really imagine what that would have been like. I still picture you so tiny ...

Dear Dakota, It was not that long ago that Uncle Bill and I were standing in line to pay our respects to the parents of an angel. As we waited in line, I lis...

That is how long it took to achieve a goal and cross it off my bucket list. 40:58 that is the length of time that it took me to complete my first 5K today. A...

D.Scott Noble November 30, 1961- April 22, 2012 Taken from us too young... too soon..... Have you ever met someone that was truly a good person? I mean good...

Wow!! I feel like I was just given a gift. As you can see from my blog, I like to write. I bought my first computer because I wanted to write short stories a...

Today would have been your eighth birthday. Sometimes it is hard to believe that it has been eight years since you came into our world, and left our world. T...

Crossovers are the way skaters move around corners and the ends of a rink. Mastering forward crossovers make a figure skater better and faster. Recently, I w...

Have you ever tried to go in one direction, but something keeps getting in your way and you do nothing about it? Recently, I was weeding my flower beds when...

How often do we lose touch with people or just stop connecting….and why? Social media makes it so easy for us to “connect”. With just a few clicks on a keyb...

So as I continue to read BFD (Blogging for Dummies) I realize I need a name for my blog. …. First I need to figure out what my blog is about. I want it to b...

So step one in my journey into the world of blogging was to buy the book “Blogging for Dummies”. That should have been simple enough, right? Lesson number on...