Every time I go to McDonalds and get a hot fudge sundae I ration how much hot fudge sauce I can eat per bite of ice cream in order to have enough sauce for all the ice cream. Now this has been a very effective way to eat my sundaes because there is chocolate and [...]

I love being a mom. I will say it again. I love being a mom. It is the greatest and the hardest and the most rewarding and most trying thing I have ever done, after being a wife. I love being a mom of daughters. I love being a mom of sons. I love being [...]

What do you create in a given day? Do you create order, sympathy, tears, paintings, poetry, piano music, cookies, cakes, kisses for booboos, clean clothing, drawings, sound, singing, strength, faith, love, hope, help or healing? We have myriad opportunities each moment for creativity. We are creative beings who have innate needs to create daily. As [...]

Can I tell you how much I absolutely love being a woman? I really do. Like, I get to wear cute clothes, and do my hair in adorable styles, and play with makeup all the time. I love shopping for shoes and drooling over cute actors and musicians (okay, and cute everybody-elses…lol). I enjoy every [...]

Last week I talked about how much I talk. There is rarely a time when I don’t have something to say but as I was filming a video to put on YouTube yesterday I was at a loss for words. The pressure of the camera was enough to send the familiar disabling fear to my [...]

Last Saturday, I was speaking with a friend. She told me about a merry-go-round she saw on television. It moved up and down as well as going round and round. This may seem like an unusual conversation for adults, but I am currently experiencing an extended episode of vertigo. As we talked about this merry-go-round, [...]

Last week, my neighbor gave me her dryer. Yes, like a washer/dryer…she gave me her dryer. Her washer gave out, was under warranty, and so she was replacing it anyway. When she told me, I asked–almost flippantly–if she was replacing her dryer, too, and giving her old one to me. I mentioned that we have [...]

Senora Smart Dodd was raised by her father.  She thought about a day to honor her father as she sat at church on Mother’s Day in 1909.   In 1924, President Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day.  Today, we celebrate Father’s Day on the third Sunday each June. I have known many wonderful [...]

I have a confession to make:  I’m totally addicted to something.  I do it almost daily.  The days I don’t get to do it, I miss it–crave it–until I can do it again.  Ladies and gentlemen, I am a workout junkie.  Whew!  Feels great to get that off my chest (lol!).  Yes!  I absolutely love, love, [...]

There is a song by Jack Johnson that often plays in my head taking about how things are “better when we’re together”. Though this song has more of a romantic tone to it, I like to apply just that line to any other person who matters to me. Most of the time when this song [...]