by Judith Heaney | Aug 11, 2025 | 365 Reasons
When our girls were younger and Halloween rolled around each year, we would do the things a lot of folks do, finding costume ideas and preparing for trick or treating, usually Halloween Strolls planned in one of the many small towns in our Western North Carolina area....
by Judith Heaney | Aug 10, 2025 | 365 Reasons
When I was a teenager, a rockabilly group, The Stray Cats, started growing in popularity and a few of their songs made it on my list of favorites at the time, which was sometime in the early 1980s. Those songs included Rock This Town, The Stray Cat Strut, and (She’s)...
by Judith Heaney | Aug 9, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Among the common bird songs and calls of summer, only one truly makes a splash and it is one with which many of us are quite familiar. Marco! Momentary pause. Polo! This call and response makes a splash every summer in and around pools everywhere. And this summer...
by Judith Heaney | Aug 8, 2025 | 365 Reasons
As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently started reading The Wings of Fire series alongside my oldest teenager and it has been a wonderful point of connection for the two of us directly, and with my youngest indirectly. All three of us tend to talk about the...
by Judith Heaney | Aug 7, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Experiencing disappointment is never easy, no matter how old we are or how many times we’ve experienced it before. It still tends to sting and stir up our emotions, emotions that are seemingly incongruous at best and difficult to sift through and process. Still, I...
