Mini Blog Challenge: 10 Things I Have Never Done Who in the heck comes up with these mini challenges? Oh wait. That would be me. Why do I make them so tough to do then? LOLOL Okay, here we go… 1. I have never been sailing. I have been in a lot of boats …

  Mini Blog Challenge: Answer the following question… Who are you? Who am I? Is that what you asked? Wait. WUT? Am I supposed to know the answer to this? Okay, fine. “J. Cricket Walker has 22 years of experience developing and implementing corporate level training programs, along with a strong background in professional speaking. …

Lemur being totally random… 35 Random Things My friend George challenged me to write a note with 35 random things, facts, habits, or goals about me. 35 things? Are you kidding me? Here goes… I would love to learn to play the harmonica. I am a bit of a geek. I have 4 children. (3 …

The darkness lingered nearby for so long that I wondered if maybe it had become a part of me, that perhaps I felt some comfort in holding onto it, keeping me safe from hope. Yeah, I was smack dab in the middle of a good old fashion pity party filled with the kind of hate …

  Surrounded in nature, a sense of peace and comfort begins to penetrate the wall of protection I have built around me, slowly filtering through the cracks.   A favorite quote floats into my thoughts. God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, …

Sometimes I find the words of others to be so powerful, so magical, that I stutter and stumble over my own words as I struggle to share the moment with you. This is one of those times, so my thoughts will be brief. I thought the poem was about winter. For you, it may very …

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.” As beautiful as I have always found this to be, I have a difficult time embracing it. Do you truly believe this? What if you …

Have you ever wondered how two people can look at the exact same thing and each see something totally different? It happens often enough that it is almost miraculous that we are able to effectively communicate with friends and loved ones at all. When I look at this picture, I see a beach filled with …

Now and then I retreat into a world of my own, a place of stillness with muted emotions, a place to just be. It isn’t a light switch that I can switch on and poof, suddenly I am in the quiet place, but rather noticing over several days that I have become quieter, with very …

Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.” Author Unknown When I took this picture of a rose, I put it away into one of my “someday” files. It just didn’t say anything to me at all. It was …