Category: Personal

Mark Wandall Foundation supports, connects youth navigating grief

Mark Wandall Foundation supports, connects youth navigating grief

This article originally appeared on YourObserver.com on March 8, 2024. After the death of her husband, Melissa Wandall started The Mark Wandall Foundation to help children cope with the loss of a family member. Melissa Wandall has endured the same kind of grief as the children she helps through The Mark Wandall Foundation. At 12, […]

Love; the essence of our inner beauty 

Love; the essence of our inner beauty  Melissa Wandall

Love is the essence of our inner beauty that brightly defines our outer beauty. Love is the pieces that we keep that will inspire us to shine on, step out and forgive ourselves and others.  Love is the reason to step into our day no matter what happens and is the reason we can also […]

To Feel Sprightly Beautiful, once More!

To Feel Sprightly Beautiful, once More!

Feeling “beautiful” and sharing those sentiments with others does NOT mean that we think we are “physically” beautiful. It means that whether it comes from the peace of God, the Joy of our children, the Love of our signigicant other, our friends, those we care for or our work we feel beautiful inside and it […]

Positively Blooming in Her own Space and Time

Positively Blooming in Her own Space and Time

We all grow in our own time and space. Most of us…for the most part…try to help others grow, too. We “think” we know what is best for others and unintentionally at times we force them to grow in places that ultimately lead to devastation for that person because they were not ready to be […]

Celebrating Hope on Father’s Day

Celebrating Hope on Father’s Day

Father’s day… a beautiful day full of celebration and contentment. A day of downtime and remembrance. For others it is a day where there is hopelessness, sadness, looking for guidance that is no longer there – a day full of remembrance that you can no longer “touch” and a day of remembrance that you wish […]

Dance Always

Dance Always

As we step into the dawn of each new day – we all step into uncharted territory. We can not predict what our day will be like. We can plan all we want but the day has already been written – if we knew a tragic outcome would occur- would we still enter the “day?” […]