The Inspiring Bee

Finding purpose in climate action.

  • What a Summer! A.K.A. What One Failure After Another Taught Me

    Summer 2023 was not the summer I dreamed about during COVID days. I did not traverse the globe nor did I write. All in all, even though it’s not quite over yet, from the outside it would seem that I had a pretty abysmal season. Speaking of which, I’m finally writing at home because I’ve…

  • From Medium to Book Deal: A Casual Blogger’s Reincarnation Into a Published Poet

    by: Anne Marie Wells A Place to Expel Despair In today’s guest post, author Anne Marie shares how she turned tragedy into a beautiful tribute to her father. If you ever thought of turning your own true story into a legacy, you will find this post inspiring. You can learn more about Anne Marie on here and purchase a copy of Survived by here. After my father was diagnosed with terminal…

  • Should You Quit Your Job?

    Hey there friend. I wanted to tell you about someone I connected with recently. Have you ever met someone who you felt was an angel, guiding you back into the right direction? She told me that my life was inspiring. She was inspired that it took me a decade to sell my picture book and…

  • What It’s Like Writing for Children: A Q&A With Picture Book Author Jocelyn Watkinson

    In what feels like eons ago, but really just about 3 years, picture book author Jocelyn Watkinson and I were in PBChat, a mentorship program. It’s amazing to think that during that time she was just like me, someone who dreamed about becoming an author. And now she is one and has two traditionally published…

  • The Big and Small Ways You Can Use the Greatest Challenges to Your Advantage

    If we’re lucky enough to age, we will at some point face challenges so great it will draw us to our knees. If we’re lucky. The unlucky ones don’t make it that far. When we are younger, we are so mired in privilege that we are angry at life when we’re thrown death, disease, rejection…

  • The Answer to More Happiness and Less Anxiety

    There was a special event on the Ten Percent Happier app entitled, “The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness.” I found the four minute videos on co-founder Dan Harris’s journey to learn from Dalai Lama so engaging it stopped me from my normal multitasking. I was enthralled by it. On the second to the last day,…

  • Welcome 2023!

    It’s that time of year when the gyms are full and every store knocks down their price on weights, blenders and diet books. I never realized how dangerous New Year’s Resolutions could be until I stopped making one. The end of one year often brings attention to things we’ve been stuffing under drawers and burying…