Words of true wisdom and quintessential truth resound in our minds and hearts long after they’ve been said. So many of the quotes I’ve read in the last day, credited to Reverend Martin Luther King […]
Category: Parenting & Family Matters
Doing Hard Things
Parenting is hard. Yes, it is a blessing. Yes, it is an inexplicable bond of love that until a person experiences it they have no comprehension of its depth. But it is hard. I’ll […]
Protected: Babies grow up, but mothers rarely sleep
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Kids, Sex, & Rock and Roll
“All good music, whatever its date, is ageless – as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.” -Peter Warlock *Disclaimer(s)* – yes, I have a couple. I plan to discuss all three […]
Saluting the Singles Among Us
Today was busy. I realized as I finished cleaning the after-dinner-disaster-of-a-kitchen that I’d sat down on only three occasions between the hours of 6:30AM and nearly 9:30PM – to eat my three meals that day. […]
Free Will and Free Won’t: My experience with adoption
I’d originally set out to write a post about our experience with adoption…the factual part. It’s something I’m asked about almost weekly. Either someone is interested in our personal experience, or he/she or a loved […]
Allowing Christmas
As I sit down to write this post, I am mildly apprehensive at the idea of actually hitting the ‘publish’ button. I’m nervous about the feathers that may be ruffled. Of course, I don’t have […]
Unexpected magic in the Caribbean…
I am not a fan of crowds. I don’t know if it’s because I was raised in (and live in) Wyoming…we have almost 100,000 square miles of space and less than a half-million people, or […]
Giving my thanks…
This post has been brewing in my subconscious…and in my heart for the last several days. I kept getting nudges about it…when I was driving…before I went to bed…whenever I let myself be quiet. For […]
Slaying the Monster that Feeds on Self-Respect
There is a big, scary, unimaginably ugly, sociopathic monster that exists…the real deal…no fairy tales needed. He is real…SHE is real. She lives and breathes to sabotage the human spirit. She is especially fond of […]
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