Bert likes to run at night. He has shared his observations of people and places collected over a lifetime of his body and soul exercise with me, and I savor every post. My pixel sense of Bert is that he is a straight shooter, and he quietly, but firmly tells [...]
Shocked Scared Loving and Protective Worried Oblivious Trying to Help Awestruck Fumbling Cautious and Tentative Overtired Annoyed Looking to Escape. Learning Adapting Teaching and Encouraging Changing Responsible Waiting to Play Amazed Relieved Helping and Surprising Growing Admired Showing the Way. [...]
I just love it when life takes me away from writing, and gives me more experiences from which to draw inspiration! Thank you for continuing to visit, and I'm sorry I haven't been my usual verbose self of late. I'll be back at it very soon...life got in the way. [...]
Relaxing in bed to the sounds of my husband in the kitchen making the omelet I taught him to make last night, a smile spread across my face. The kitty jumped up to join me, settling on my chest, gently kneading my shoulder, while rubbing her forehead into my chin, [...]
When the weather starts to heat up, all children have the same thought...SUMMER VACATION! Most parents know to book reservations for popular destinations months, sometimes more than a year in advance, but some unique, relatively unknown vacation ideas might surprise you with their availability. Start with the individual family members' [...]
Have you ever seen a friend after they had drifted out of your life years ago, and were surprised how much their life had changed, but they actually stayed the same and had not grown? Our lives change all the time, how we adapt, and change ourselves to dance to [...]
My 10 year old Riley, like all kids, takes injustice very seriously. I was talking to him about a recent injustice he observed (okay, I had contradicted myself, and he caught me...what of it?!) and I brought in the "Babies don't come with an owner's manual" quote. The puzzled expression [...]
It always helps me to talk about things with those I trust (okay, maybe I bitch more than talk), and most times, nuggets of wisdom are tossed by friends into my open mind like my 13 year old tosses popcorn up to catch it in his open mouth. During a [...]
[Fourteenth and Final installment - If you are new to this journey, start at the 1st chapter in my 8 months pregnant with 2 broken legs journey as chronicled in my book Say Bump and Take a Left, How I Birthed a Baby and a Business after a Huge Bump [...]
[Thirteenth installment - If you are new to this journey, start at the 1st chapter in my 8 months pregnant with 2 broken legs journey as chronicled in my book Say Bump and Take a Left, How I Birthed a Baby and a Business after a Huge Bump in the [...]
