(written a couple days earlier than it’s due: that’s a victory!) On this Epiphany Sunday, it feels like everywhere I turn there are gifts, messages, wisdom-bearers. While driving to church this morning, I was again reminded of how much I love the trees in the wintertime. They are no longer clumps of trees or groups or [...]
This Will Be The Year
First let me say Happy Holidays to all! About a month ago I purchased Susan Boyle’s newest CD. I love it! There are lots of old (but good) songs and there are a few I’ve never heard before. Since between this post to the blog and the next, we’ll experience the celebration of a new [...]
Risky Swimming
Happy New Year! I know it’s past the middle of January but it’s the first time I’ve been able to say that to you all. I wish good things for you this year of 2011. I hope it will be a year of good health, happiness, and finding risks to take that will open your [...]
Happy New Hair!
Happy New Hair, I mean Happy New Year! Last year, one of my goals was to take better care of myself. I planned to implement it by developing daily habits. I hadn’t mapped out what the habits would be at the beginning of the year and sometimes it meant developing two habits per month. [...]
A New Year, A New Attitude: Coping with Sudden Change
A plaque by the artist Mary Engelbreit hangs above my kitchen sink. It depicts two girls looking out a window, their arms resting on the sill. The girl on the left, a blonde with a big red ribbon, has her eyes cut to the side; her mouth is in a most definite pout. The girl [...]
Holidays and Hormones
I love the Holiday Season. Starting with Thanksgiving, all the cooking and baking, gathering round a table with too much good food, connecting and re-connecting with family and friends. Jumping into Christmas, the decorating, the shopping, the wrapping, the giving and receiving, again with the cooking and baking. Then New Year’s, saying good-bye to the past [...]
So You Don’t Wonder the Rest of Your Life If You Should Have…
I physically gave birth to three children; they are currently 22, 16 and 10. For the last 11 years, however, I’ve counted two more in my brood – my youngest’s older sister and brother (from her father’s first marriage.) They are currently 23 and 18. Right after my youngest was born, her father finally got [...]
