Coffee Club Perks

by Stacey Thacker | Nov 18, 2014 | Connect, The Coffee Club

Have you heard about the Coffee Club? I don’t know why I didn’t think of it earlier. I just love everything about it! What is the Coffee Club? Well, the Coffee Club is an easy peasy way for us to stay connected. When you join the Coffee Club you get these...

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...