Daily Thoughts
A Daily Dose of Chocolate
It is my professional opinion that everyone experiences important health benefits when consuming dark chocolate. Those benefits apply to both physical and mental health, from improving blood flow and helping with lowering blood pressure, providing some important...
Making the Mundane Extraordinary
There are times when I identify way more with Walter Mitty than I care to admit. Specifically, I am talking about the 2013 film version starring Ben Stiller for the way the movie removes the hen-pecked spouse angle and imbues James Thurber’s original short story with...
Bad Hair Days Made Better
Confession: sometimes I would rather do anything than take a shower and wash my hair. I would more readily do laundry or clean the bathroom or have to do all of my Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve Day than expend the energy necessary to wash my hair (the showering...
They Have My Heart, No Matter What
In honor of Valentine’s Day, a day of which I am not a huge fan, I thought it might be fun to consider the ways these two amazing teenagers of ours have my heart—no matter what. Perhaps the greatest influence for this blogging series is God’s love for me. Christians...
Parenting Is for the Birds!
Every now and then I stumble onto an unschooling idea that resonates in ways I maybe could or even should have predicted and yet didn’t anticipate. What I love most about those ideas and moments is the way they often build on and play off of each other. One such...
Creating a Space for Their Art
As a creative person, I find other people’s creativity a wonderful well of inspiration from which to draw. I love to hear from other people regarding their creative journeys—their struggles, their celebrations, their newest artistic pursuits. That’s why I count myself...
It’s the Little Things
Every now and again I am reminded just how much I enjoy the little things of my life, things like quiet moments in the morning with coffee and prayer or watching the birds flit to and fro at our backyard feeders or simply having a conversation with one of my...
They’re on the Case of Self-Awareness
I once heard someone compare the journey of self-awareness to being the detective in your own life, uncovering the clues about your behavior and emotions. Watching the ways my teenagers daily grow in understanding themselves, I tend to agree with this detective...
They Are Practically Perfect in Every Way
If you’ve been following along with this series, you may be thinking I’ve raised some perfect teenagers; that is most definitely not true. That isn’t to say they aren’t the perfect teenagers for me or to me, but that still doesn’t translate into them being anywhere...