by Leeana Tankersley | Jan 12, 2015 | Home Page
For the last two years, I’ve shared this post at New Years. I am sharing it again because I believe in this truth now more than ever and because so many of you have told me how this idea of “beginning again” has changed you in some small or large...
by Leeana Tankersley | May 28, 2014 | Home Page
Besides my husband and children, I have probably mentioned Maya Angelou on my blog more than any other person. In honor of her life and death, I thought I would repost this writing from 2012. It features one of my very favorite Angelou poems, “Continue.”...
by Leeana Tankersley | Mar 10, 2014 | Home Page
Today, I’m wrapping up this series on starting and maintaining a meaningful group. I get a lot of questions about the group I’m in and I thought it would be helpful to outline some of the guiding principles and the nitty gritty of a process-based life group. If...
by Leeana Tankersley | Mar 5, 2014 | Home Page
A few months ago Lane — age 4, at the time — asked me if I would push her on the swing set in our yard. “Sure,” I said. “Can you not bring your phone with you?” she says right back to me. And I felt like I had been punched in the gut. “Of...
by Leeana Tankersley | Mar 3, 2014 | Home Page
Today is Part 3 of a series of posts I put together about a group I’ve been a part of for almost a decade now. I believe people are looking for meaningful ways to connect with each other and meaningful places where they are seen and validated instead of scrutinized....
by Leeana Tankersley | Feb 27, 2014 | Home Page
Tonight I am going to see Anne Lamott at Point Loma Nazarene University, and I am thrilled. She has been, for so many us, the matriarch guru who blew the doors off our souls when she told us we could actually tell the truth about things. She has taught so many of us...