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Painting It Gold
Welcome!
Hello! I’m Michelle, and I’m so glad you’re here! I hope we can learn from each other, and together, make the world a little better as we find our way. From my earliest memories, I’ve been an observer of people. I was always believed to be quiet and shy, which I...
A Boy and His Truck
Life can be messy and consuming. We can just be going along, living each day as it comes, and all of a sudden, we don’t know where the time has gone and we’re filled with some level of anxiety realizing that some, or all of the things we wanted to do remain undone....
Set Your Sights High…
I’m sitting at the kitchen table. It’s 7:47AM and My morning is in full swing. I sat down here to collect my thoughts, and to get a mental picture of what I need to get done this week before I head to the gym where I work up the energy and motivation to get it all...
About Me
Michelle Mead
When it comes to the real of life and the challenges it brings, we have a choice to let what comes our way knock us down, or to roll with it and make the best of things. It’s always been my desire to do the latter. Trust me, I live a very real life and am human, as imperfect as the next. I have to work at it! But I’ve never believed it matter’s what comes my way- what matters is how I deal with it. Seeing the humor or the up side of things (or literally making an up side! Fake it till you make it!) which is what I started to refer to as “painting it gold,” inspired by my mom.