Last week, I had an unexpected opportunity to spend the day with my sister. She stopped by during the early morning and stayed through dinner. While we visited, a good friend stopped by for a play-date, and all three of us enjoyed visiting as little ones played around us. We cleaned, organized, did dishes and [...]
It is summertime. My daughters, son and I have planned to pick blueberries for about a week. Last Tuesday, my oldest daughter came by after picking up her preschoolers, and said, “Are we going to pick blueberries?” So, we loaded everybody in the car and off we went! It took us about 40 minutes to [...]
An ancient story tells of a man who had a dream. In the dream, this man was walking toward a tree which had white, pure, sweet fruit. When he tasted the fruit, he wanted his family to taste it also. As I have been reading his experience again, I started to think about the sweetness [...]
Hello, blog readers! I just want to tell you that I am having pretty much the coolest experience of my life ever right now, which I will tell you all about another time. I am on this total high. It’s so great!! So if I’m not blogging about my right now, what the heck am [...]
These one-word titles that begin with the letter “C” seem to be popular lately: “Connection,” “Compassion,” and now “Commitment.” Funny, huh? Well, since I made my commitment to all of you last week to work on my attitude, I wanted to let you know how I was doing. And as much as I would love to [...]
Work. Yes, you read that right. I didn’t always feel this way. Believe me. I worked very hard to get out of doing work when I was younger. My mother used to tell me that if I spent half the energy working on whatever task was at hand as I spent trying to get out [...]
I was at the office today and received a phone call from my daughter inquiring if there were clients waiting. There were none, so she sent her twins into the office to say “hello.” I was so happy to see them. (I was out of town last weekend and have missed seeing my family.) The [...]