What Today Should Have Been
Today is one of those days in my life when I used to celebrate something special. We all have those days.It’s the days that you used to buy gifts for, send out invitations to or mark the dates off on your calendar until that one special day arrives filling your...
What is Freedom?
I started today with the question: “What is Freedom?” It’s the question that’s giving us fits right now. I put a pin in my thoughts and went to the beautiful Toledo’s Farmers Market. A freelance journalist stopped me while I was buying some red onions. She was...
Music with Mia: Songs to Strengthen Your Faith
What songs speaks to your soul when you’re feeling down or discouraged? On this episode of the Better Together FB Live, you’re in for a treat! Join me for conversation and music with Mia Koehne, song writer and artist. For the past couple of years,...
The Control Girl Club
Do you ever think, “If everyone would just do what I am telling them to do, then we will all be much happier? On this episode of Better Together FB Live, I’m talking with Shannon Popkin, author of Control Girl: Lessons on Surrendering your Burden of...
Token or Trailblazer?
I’ve spent my entire professional life and at times, large portions of my personal life as the lone chocolate chip in the cookie or the only brown face in an all-white space. I grew up in a middle-class to upper-middle class community that was beyond 90% Caucasian. In...
Hope, Help & Hoarders with Cynthia Ruchti
On this episode of Better Together Facebook Live, I’m talking with award-winning author, Cynthia Ruchti about hope, hoarding and her new novel, Afraid of the Light. Cynthia and I discuss the prevalence of hoarding, the impact of the anxiety disorder of those...
Hope for the Fatherless on Father’s Day with Kia Stephens
.On this episode of Better Together Facebook Live, Kia Stephens, founder of The Father Swap Blog stopped by to talk with us about “father wounds” or the emotional pain and loss that comes from a daughter’s broken relationship with her father. Not...
Hope and Help when You Don’t Know What to Do with Gail Cooper
On this episode of Better Together Facebook Live, host Barb Roose talks, guest Gail Cooper joins Barb and passionately teaches through 2 Chronicles 20. This chapter is all about four things that we can do when overwhelming circumstances show up in our lives. O our...
An Almost Perfect Get-Away Day…(A poem about living as a person of color)
It was sweet, summer day. Just my girls and me. Blue cloud-free skies, cool breeze. A perfect spot under a tree. It’s been a long, few weeks, So there under those leaves I prayed: “God, let today be a perfect “get away” day. I want to get away from knowing that so...
Seven Habits of Confident Moms with Deb Porter
Do you struggle with mom-guilt? Do you tend to take care of everyone else before taking care of yourself? On this episode of Better Together Facebook Live, I’m talking with my friend and parenting expert, Deborah Porter about the seven habits of confident...

