Daily Thoughts
The Bookends of My Days
Today I headed off to the library with my 17 year old leaving my 14 year old home with her dad because we needed to replenish our unschooling nonfiction picture book options. Due to birthday things followed by sickness, it has been at least a month since we’ve gotten...
Laughter Is Gloriously Contagious
As we make our way through the second week of cold viruses here, I am celebrating something that’s truly and wonderfully contagious here, and that’s the laughter our family shares. As my girls ate dinner tonight, I considered how much I am missing our opportunities...
Baby Steps & Small Beginnings
Sometimes, when we try to measure our progress, we can miss how far we’ve come along the path of our journey because baby steps are harder to measure. And yet, they are the true measurement of our resilience and commitment in the face of difficult journeys. As we...
The Cumulative Effect of Relationships
As this week gets underway, I realize my teenagers and I are headed into a Round 2 kind of week; rather than returning to familiar rhythms and routines, the younger teenager is succumbing to whatever virus the older had last week and is finally shaking. Alas, there...
If at First You Don’t Figure It Out…
I don’t know about you, but there are times I’m in the middle of what seems like it should be a simple project and I find myself simply stymied. My best efforts yield nothing more than additional annoyance at best because I cannot figure out the solution. In those...
The Wholeness of Wellness
Is there anything better than when the mantle of sickness finally begins to lift? After nasal congestion and stuffed-up noses that make sleeping feel impossible and the sapping of energy from several days of feeling less than 100 percent, when the symptoms that have...
Love in Health & Colds
If you’re married, or if you have ever watched a movie in which two people get married, you are probably familiar with wedding vows, including the line to love one another in sickness and in health. Now, while some vows have morphed over the years, some being dropped...
Story & Characters
As a writer, one of the things I appreciate deeply about my teenagers is their creative writing focus; I love the stories they dabble in and the characters they develop. Those characters take on roles in their stories and in their art, whether on the iPad or in...
Education On the Wings of Eagles
I am not sure exactly why things are off rhythm and routine for me recently, but they are. My morning routine has been left incomplete several days in a row now and some of the standard To Dos I easily check off each day have been going unchecked. Maybe it has...