The message I wanted to share with you this week has changed. because as I sat down a few days ago to start work on this post, another school shooting occurred. This time in STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado.

Right after we moved to central Illinois, nearly seven years ago now, I was up in Chicago for meetings for my corporate job. An unfamiliar 800 number came through my cell phone. Thinking it was a sales call, I let it go to voicemail.

I found out later it was a school district communication.

I love the freshness of the new year, so full of possibilities. If you are longing to turn something you’ve been dreaming of into something real, something concrete, I have a great place to start.

One of the most important things you can do is surprisingly simple: It’s to decide.  

Simple, but perhaps not so easy.

She outstretched her small, mittened hand toward the sky and caught a snowflake. She held it for a moment, basking in wonder, before it melted away, forever transformed into tiny droplets of water.

One-night last month, I sat on the couch with my husband watching the latest travesty on the news.