Just Write: 6 Months

by Stacey Thacker | Nov 11, 2014 | Connect, grief | 3 comments

6 months hit like a sucker punch from out of the blue. I was struggling and not sure why really 6 months felt like day 2. But it did. I cried almost daily. I could not stop thinking about my dad. So many memories washed over me during that 6 month window. In my...

What You Will Find Behind Every Brave Girl

by Stacey Thacker | Oct 14, 2014 | Connect, Encourage, Top Post | 20 comments

I stood in her kitchen eating a handful of candy corn and peanuts soaking up the encouragement she so easily handed out. I was avoiding the obvious and acting like my husband was not in fact in our van waiting for me to come back in the five minutes I had promised. My...

Are a Mom of a Freshman in High School ?

by Stacey Thacker | Aug 28, 2014 | Connect, Motherhood, mothers of daughters, Parenting | 1 comment

Are a mom of a freshman in high school this year? Me, too. The more I think about it them more weepy I get. But, even though I would like to push the pause button, I know deep down inside I can’t. It helps that my daughter is ready and completely cool with her...

When Wild Obedience Looks Like A Weepy Hot Mess of a Girl

by Stacey Thacker | Aug 17, 2014 | Conferences, Connect, Fresh Out of Amazing, speaking | 17 comments

Friends lets be honest for a minute. It looks like to me the world is getting uglier everyday. I can’t wrap my mind around the crazy and the reality of what tomorrow holds. People are angry. Some are broken. And I’m pretty sure I don’t have anything...

{This} Writer’s Prayer

by Stacey Thacker | Aug 14, 2014 | Blogging, Connect, Encourage, Fresh Out of Amazing, Top Post, Writer.Girl, Writing | 11 comments

First make me a listener. Give me ears to hear what you are speaking. Shut out the noise all around and let it be your voice that rises above every other. I ask for eyes to see the world brand new every day.  Let the miraculous lovely rise up out of the crazy busy and...

Welcome Friends!

by Stacey Thacker | Jul 9, 2014 | Connect | 20 comments

Have you ever went shopping for a new outfit to wear to a special event and just hoped like crazy somebody said something about how nice you looked? Or at least, they noticed you did your hair up and put a little more effort into putting on your makeup. Well friends,...