Life Lessons

Burning books

November 10, 2012

A cool breeze invited me onto my back porch last week. As my kids ran off some of their energy, I started a fire and sat with an acclaimed novel in my hand. Thirty pages in, I knew I wasn’t interested in finishing it and for a brief second I considered tossing it atop the [...]

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Simple pleasures

October 24, 2012

My husband has been out of town for over a week now, and I have been doing the single-mom gig. And, of course, within 48 hours of him leaving, my youngest was diagnosed with strep. (They always wait till Daddy is gone.) When the weekend came, we were on lockdown. Three kids and I were [...]

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The shortcoming of brainwashing

October 15, 2012

I had an whoa moment last week that really got me thinking about what is in my control and what is not. I was confiding in a friend who questioned why I was so worried about what my kids thought about me all the time. I said that I wanted my kids to think I [...]

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Just like dad

October 5, 2012

My oldest son was given the assignment of drawing a picture and telling a story about what he wanted to be when he grows up. Most of his 1st grade male classmates held onto the hero themes like police officers and firefighters. I fully expected my son to say he wanted to be a ninja [...]

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Top five lessons from Juneau, Alaska

July 27, 2012

I returned from a week in Juneau, Alaska a couple of days ago. I am a believer that life’s adventures always provide lessons if we look for them. Sometimes the lessons are slaps in the face, sometimes they’re humorous, and sometimes they are just reminders of previous life lessons. Here are my Top 5 Lessons [...]

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No more KISS

July 13, 2012

It seems like my biggest concern as a kid was whose mom was supplying the snack for the day. There were 6-9 of us on the street at any given time playing cops and robbers with the mailboxes, tackle football across three front yards, basketball in the driveway, putting Dawn on the Slip and Slide, [...]

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Personal Independence Day

July 4, 2012

Last night I started thinking about independence while learning personal information that made me feel rather enslaved. See, last week, I went in for an annual medical exam and came out needing blood work to test for everything from diabetes to thyroid to hormonal imbalances to cancer. Results started coming in yesterday and the idea [...]

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