It’s Sunday, and frankly, I’m feeling a little like hanging out in my sweats, sitting in a sunny corner of the house with the windows open, and reading. That’s okay, right? I mean, we need to give ourselves permission to have these days. Days when we don’t shave, put on make-up, maybe even (the gods […]
Day 2- Productivity Is Not Always Positive
Messages come from all kinds of places and every day if we are in tune to listen for them. What kind of messages? What do I mean by “in tune”? When you are thinking too much about the past, caught up in past hurts or traumas, or if you are constantly dwelling in fear of […]
Day 1- My Journey
By now, those of you who follow my podcast, YouTube channel, or social media may have read the additional blogs that accompany each episode. I will continue to blog and post for My Front Porch in 2021, but this blog called Pause, and Go Gently will actually be quite different. It occurred to me late […]
An Exciting New Direction
The night, Jenna met with Chris Bolin, Mike Ireland, and Jason Griswold of Opiate at The Pub to discuss the treatment for their music video, she immediately bonded with the guys. The band, named after a song by Tool, a band that had a heavy influence on their music, quickly became like big brothers to […]
A Slight Turn Toward the Future
University Bound For some, a drive to success begins early in life. They find their calling at an early age and begin to direct their path toward that calling. Others, however, come out of high school directionless and unsure. Like many others, they use their first years of college to discern what the future may […]
A Musical Path
Early Influences Many of Jenna Martinez’s first childhood memories from the late 1980s are laced with the sounds of music; jazz, blues, soul, rock, and musical instruments everywhere. Of those memories, perhaps the most vivid is of her father, Luis, taking her to see Michael Jackson’s Thriller when she was no more than two years […]
A Timeless Love
The Change of Space Returning home presented an entirely new set of challenges for Richard, Kelley, and Paulette. Rooms that were designed and prepared to entertain by Paulette would now sit mostly empty and devoid of the many people she hoped would fill them up with joy and laughter. Where once there might have been […]
The Return Home
The Atrium After five grueling weeks of slow, daily improvement, Paulette’s score on the Glasgow Scale miraculously rose to a 9 meaning she was a viable human being. She could breathe on her own, had spontaneous eye movements, responded to voices, and experienced reflexes to stimulation. She was even able to swallow small sips of […]
The Commitment
In God’s Hands When Richard received the call at Bellevue Baptist and heard of his wife’s accident, his worst thought was that she’d broken her arm or leg. There was no additional detail, but he made enough haste to Regional One Health Medical Center approximately 18 miles away. At the scene, bewildered bystanders moved Paulette […]
Transformed
Monday, June 6th Nothing of great significance occurred in history on Monday, June 6, 2005. Anne Bancroft died. The cleanup of the longest oil/natural gas explosion in history in Crosby, Texas the prior week was on-going. The Supreme Court voted down the legalization of marijuana that day in Federal Court. The American public commemorated the […]