Click here to start living braver! If a short glance at the cover of this book starts your insides buzzing, or if your immediate response is to grab a dish rag, spatula, piping bag and start color-matching the icing to fix that atrocious “problem” you might enjoy and benefit from reading The Cure for the Perfect Life: 12 Ways to Stop Trying Harder and Start Living Braver. If your first reaction is to lick the cover and see what the frosting tastes like, you can probably pass on … [Read more...]
When Doing Nothing is Actually Something
I’ve just finished reading Kathi Lipp’s new book I Need Some Help Here. I had the privilege of contributing a “Story from the Trenches” in the chapter entitled…gulp…"When My Child is Lacking Character.” (If you’d like a front row seat to what happens in our vehicle during our 15 minute commute to and from school, you can buy the book by clicking HERE). Need Some Help? She’s addressed many tough parenting topics, most of which she’s slogged through first-hand. But one particular … [Read more...]
Friendship is Born of…Blogging?
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ~ C.S. Lewis The quotable Lewis summarizes what has been fleshed this blogosphere and in real life conversations with my real (as opposed to virtual) friends. I have been delighted by every comment and conversation! It only fans the writing flame inside me. Following is a list of moments when friendships have been born or nurtured, where you and I have said to one … [Read more...]
Hello blog-wagon!
Inspired by a blogging friend, I've officially jumped on the blog-wagon. I think blogging will be a creative outlet for me and maybe entertainment for my friends : ) Perhaps my honesty about real stuff will grant us all permission to just "call a spade a spade." For instance, the day all three of my boys went to school, I sang the Hallelujah Chorus in my head. It was like an involuntary reflex. Now, that doesn't mean I don't love those boys, but it does mean I'm not going to … [Read more...]