It’s summer where I live and this month brings families together outside for picnics and parties that sound like laughter and smell like bug spray – we have quite a…
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I saw the most beautiful woman as I was shopping at Costco recently. She was shorter, maybe between 5’3’’ and 5’5’’ and had brown hair which was cut into a…
Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them. ~June Stoyer What is your favorite flower? There are so many to…
Soccer season has just ended for my daughter, Zula. Her team wore blue and the little 3 to 5 year-olds on it were appropriately named, The Blueberries. Here she is…
When you observe kind and gentle mothers in action, you see women of great strength ~ Margaret Nadauld “Your eyes are cracked, mom. Why do you have red cracks in…
Often people ask me when it was that I came to accept this trial in my life. They want to know when I experienced a “turning point” and became okay…
I think it is difficult to act on feelings and promptings. We get embarrassed and feel uncomfortable and, most of all, we REALLY don’t like to veer from our to-do…
I thought being a mom was going to be easy – not in the sense that the work is easy. But I thought that just being a mom meant that…
In the dark, on the road, with a pretty frightened 14-year-old who felt bad enough for accidentally pushing me out of my wheelchair I think I met the scariest, most…