In the Rogers and Hammerstein musical version of Cinderella, there is a song which says “impossible things are happening every day:” For the world is full of zanies and fools Who don’t believe in sensible rules And won’t believe what sensible people say And because these daft and dewy eyed dopes Keep building up impossible [...]

Who do you contact regularly? Who depends on your phone calls, emails, facebook & blog comments, visits, letters, or treats you may drop off from time to time? What feelings do you have for these individuals? Do you depend on them as much as they depend on you? The women in my life appear to–almost [...]

I have recently begun exercising again after a long hiatus. (Too long…but I digress. Focus, Marta, focus!) It took me a while to get back into it, partly because I knew I’d lost some ground and I was scared to begin all over again. But do you know what the real, major thing that kept [...]

This morning I woke up early, for no particular reason. Sometimes that randomly happens to me. I don’t know why that happens, but sometimes I wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed before the sun. So, when this happens I do a few different things. I determine if I can get back to sleep easily [...]

One of my favorite discoveries is that my girls call each other when they are listening to songs that they love or that their sister loves. Recently, I had the sweet experience to be at home and one daughter was on the phone with the other one in her car. Soon, I could hear both [...]

The other day, I was clearing a few items off a large table made of a hard wood base and legs with a yellow laminate tabletop. I watched my hands glide through the Windex spray spots with a soft paper towel surrounding my fingertips, almost perfunctory, but not quite. This table was built by my [...]

Amy Tucker Johnston is a loving wife, sister, daughter and friend. Seeing the good in others and uplifting them with love and complements is one of her gifts. She shares her insights into the empowering of friends in her blog today. In this past month, so much has happened. I wanted to keep it all [...]

I don’t know if you have ever seen the show “Extreme Makeover Home Edition,” but lately it’s been one of my favorites. Because I have been home sick all week, there has been a lot of time to watch the show. One of the episodes I caught on Monday has to be my favorite one [...]

C-D-E-F-G-F-E-D-C, sing it: cdefgfedc, playing scales on the piano.  “A Dozen A Day” was the drill book I used. Up and down, up and down, sometimes very low on the piano and sometimes very high.  After all, variety is the spice of life.  But, play I would, especially right before piano lesson time. I did [...]

When have you said “hello” and “goodbye” lately?  We say “hello” to new neighbors, new friends, people in the grocery store or on the sidewalk when we are strolling around town…we say “goodbye” to a child as they rush out the door, to a telemarketer on the phone, to our family before we begin a [...]