Recently I went back home and spent a few days where I was as a child and driving the through the back roads that were evergreen with pastures and twists and turns and I found myself at the old pond that I fished in as a child. T Lane and Sally’s fishpond in fact...
Living the Sweet Life : I’ve been thinking,worrying,wondering,praying and hoping you’ll see….
There’s an old saying that some call “THE GOLDEN RULE” It’s been everywhere for such a long time. No one can tell me they haven’t heard of it before because you can plainly see it’s in all religions and thoughts about humankind. Buddhism Hurt not others...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweetlife” | July 2015 | “A Love Story”
Once upon a time in a land called the Carolina’s there lived a little boy named Brian and a little girl named Alisa. They went to school together…played in the school yard together and rode the same school bus home. In elementary school Brian held Alisa’s hand when she cried and missed her mother...
Houston’s Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweet Life” June 2015 | #alisamurray
Living The SweetLife : Thinking about your Transition June 2015 So I want to get you thinking about something that most of you will not want to do. I want you to start thinking about what you want to happen when you are no longer amongst the living. Recently I...
Houston’s Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweetlife” Radishes Anyone?? #alisamurraywrites #alisamurray #alisamurrayphotography
Living the Sweet Life: Radishes anyone? “Too much meat and cheese and you’ll get the disease!” It’s Sunday afternoon and it’s raining. For shooting this is no good but for gardening it’s a blessing. The lessons learned from growing a garden are so many. Our children need to understand what foods are good and...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweet Life April 2015 | #alisamurray
A Beautiful Responsibility I really like wearing a cape (figuratively speaking of course!) and given the opportunity to be a super hero at anytime in my life has, and I am sure will continue to be, ideal. Now, my time has come! Many already know that as the children have grown in my...
Living the Sweetlife : A Beautiful Responsibility
I really like wearing a cape (figuratively speaking of course!) and given the opportunity to be a super hero at anytime in my life has, and I am sure will continue to be, ideal. Now, my time has come! Many already know that as the children have grown in my family client base...
Alisa Murray’s Award winning column | Living the Sweet Life | #alisamurraywrites
Well my friends… December has rolled back around to us yet again! Hardly yesterday it seems I was getting ready for spring and all at once 2014 flew by making me wonder if all the rest of my years will be the same. Gosh knows I surely hope not! The time we have here...
Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweetlife “Hope and Inspiration ten years in retrospect” #alisamurraywrites
Living the Sweetlife: October 2014 Hope and Inspiration in Retrospect I remember her sparkly blue eyes and her infectious laugh the very most. Then when I think of her my mind goes to her two beautiful young daughters. I am pleased that she will be a part of my life forever…(Alisa Murray, Artist...
Living the Sweet Life…”Finding Home” Houston Award-Winning Columnist Alisa Murray
Living the SweetLife: Finding Home September 2014 If you think back to when you were a child there are special things from that time...
Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweet Life Houston Human Interest Writer #alisamurray
Super Sizing YOUR Sweet LIFE! It takes time to become what we already are. Think on that for just a moment. Life moves through seasons and with each one it is sometimes a joyous time while others are quite stressful. We spend our lives moving through various states of being and the key to...
Living the Sweetlife: April
Living the Sweetlife: Try not to succumb to “The Middletons” The Middletons are a part of your life. Do you know them? I sure hope so since they are helping you raise yourself and your children. They have infected every part of our society and have quietly snuck into our cultural norm. The ads...
Living the Sweet Life February 2014 “Hated or Loved…be true to Yourself”
Perhaps André Gide said it best “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” Predictable. Stable. Contrary. Eccentric. Everybody has known someone who is through and through authentic. At least I hope you have. My goodness it sure seems to be a hard...
How to have Peace on Earth December 2013
Over the past several months I have been listening to family and health radio. One afternoon, doctors were discussing genetic mutations and how what we do to our bodies actually genetically rewires our DNA. Did you know that? They stated what we put into our bodies actually alters how we react and respond. They...
What image are YOU projecting? December 2013
Have you ever sat and gone through a drawer full of pictures? Besides traveling down memory lane; I am sure you have found yourself laughing at the hair, the clothes and in some cases even the circumstances. There’s the picture of me for example in fourth grade with a curly perm afro, velour shirt...
Books and Movies and More!
Celebrate Reading and Movies When I was a child, my Big Daddy and Granny would come pick me up right after Baptist choir camp to spend a month or so with them in the mountains. It was in many ways a very special time. Cousins would come and go, but it was particularly fantastic...
Finding Treasures in Unexpected Ways!
It’s always the small things you remember. About six months ago, one of my clients stepped out of her car for a shoot, and I heard a familiar jingle. At first, I could not place the sound, but after just a second, I realized that it was coming from her shoes. Once I glanced...
A Year in Review
Looking Back Well, it’s January. I honestly cannot believe it. This time of the year always makes me think about things that I did not get to in the previous year. There is, of course, all the improvements both to oneself and one’s home that always seem to get pushed back until right now,...
Reflections On Marriage
Reflections on the Sanctimonious Institution of Marriage About….no, exactly twenty years ago, Brian and I were in front of approximately 800 people, promised to each other and our families and our Lord to honor and cherish one another until death parted us. I was only twenty and he was barely twenty-one. Thinking back on...
Focus on Making a Little LOVE
AHHH, Valentine’s day! I can still remember making the real homemade valentines for friends at school. Cutting out paper dollies and gluing them to construction paper hearts…adding in a little sparkle here… a little rhinestone there. Being an artist sometimes has it’s advantages. I purposefully try to engage my children in artistic projects that...