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...
Focus on Writing
Wrapping Up the First Year Well, I know it’s hard to believe, I can barely believe it myself… I have had my column for a year! I have been amazed at the response the magazine has had and in general the support from those friends and family living in the area. Many a week...
Hope and Inspiration
The How of Winning or Losing We all know the saying…”It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game”; and that well, is no more appropriate than when fighting with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Many of you are aware of my work from the past several years with mothers...
Father’s Day
Reflect on The Fathers In Your Life Ok, first of all let me say Thanks to our readers! As I go about my daily life in Sugar Land I am often stopped by friends that are reading my column. I have been excited to learn how many of you look forward to this each...
Focus on Grandmothers
Grandmother’s Wisdom The endearing task of writing this column each month has become for me a sort of beloved yet sacred space. A time for me to share with you (the world) some window into places you either can relate to or might not have thought about before. Occasionally I find myself giving the...
Living the “sweet life” in Sugar Land
Alisa Murray, the writer Many of you guys know me as a photographer but few know me as a writer. I have been working for several years now on books both for children as well as fundraisers for breast cancer. So when my good friends at the Fort Bend Focus asked me to begin...