[Second installment - Here is the First - of 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 Road. Go ahead and laugh, you won't [...]
[Yes this really happened to me. I was 8 months pregnant with 2 broken legs and a toddler. Over the next few weeks, I will blog about my journey as chronicled in my book Say Bump and Take a Left, How I Birthed a Baby and a Business after a [...]
I am blessed and cursed to be one of those people who catches on quickly and does not get frazzled with multiple tasks that need to be accomplished simultaneously - in other words I can multitask with the best of them. I am married to the complete opposite, however, and [...]
(I decided to write this post in response to the Beauty of a Woman Blogfest, and Kristen Lamb's post about her thighs. It is too late to enter the Blogfest, but I was inspired never-the-less.) I heard these words spoken by my maternal Grandmother almost daily when I was young. [...]
Okay, this is my first time, so be gentle with me. (Geez, I haven't said those words in about 30 years.) I have never been nominated for anything, let alone a blogging award, so I'm almost speechless. I must say, "Thanks, Luv" to Jo VonBargen for the nod (or shout [...]
I can empathize with Michelangelo. So what if I'm 500 years too late. When he looked at a hard edged, raw piece of marble, he not only saw the strength and beauty it could become, but he also artfully worked with the strengths and weaknesses of the stone. He was [...]
"You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago - they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but [...]
Dear First Born: I'm sorry, but you will feel life isn't fair for you. That's just the way it is. You are the one who will break in us parent-types, and have to deal with the brunt of our hovering, protective, scared-we-will-lose-you fears. You will wait to get all the [...]
A flock of birds Tweeting the same song Adding my verse I now belong Before, I waited Til they landed beside me To sing with them Maybe in harmony? Now I sing With flocks everywhere We key through the world Alighting here and there. Landing beside them Those beckoning bards [...]
My Mother-in-law hated for anyone to touch her. I'm sure Jean let her husband touch her, but if anyone else, even her sons, touched her, she would flinch. She was the most rigid person I have ever met, shoulders constantly scrunched, and she walked a little hunched over. She and [...]
