by Judith Heaney | Sep 7, 2025 | 365 Reasons
When I was a teenager, there were a couple of radio shows I listened to regularly and each included requests and dedications. One was a national program that aired on Sunday mornings, Casey Kasem’s American Top 40; his show featured a long-distance dedication from a...
by Judith Heaney | Sep 6, 2025 | 365 Reasons
As youngsters, our girls were choosy about the movies they wanted to watch. While many girls their ages were intimately familiar with movies like Frozen and its quite-famous song, Let It Go, our girls were not drawn into the story because they found some of the...
by Judith Heaney | Sep 5, 2025 | 365 Reasons
If you follow this blog and my writing here with any regularity, you’ve come across at least a couple of posts referencing the musical, Hamilton. This one will continue with that hyperfocus as my girls have come to refer to it because I have been listening to Ron...
by Judith Heaney | Sep 4, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Perhaps I should preface this post by saying that I understand that not everyone appreciates musicals, whether on the Broadway and off-Broadway stages or on the big screen. I am not none of these people. Since my early teens, I have been fully and completely enamored...
by Judith Heaney | Sep 3, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Because I know I can sometimes spend too much time mindlessly scrolling through different social media feeds, I try my best to limit how often I let myself open the different apps on my phone, especially if I’m working on something like writing or if my girls and I...
by Judith Heaney | Sep 2, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Apparently, when I was a little kid going to bed at night, one of my parents—usually my mom—had to come into my room with me, inspect beneath the covers, and smack the bedcovers along the bottom of my bed to kill the lobsters I was convinced were hiding in my bed...