by Judith Heaney | Oct 7, 2025 | 365 Reasons
The art of self-reflection, of being self aware, is an art I am seeing more and more in each of my teenagers who are right now 15 and 17 and yet wiser than those years. Those numbers do not reflect who they are becoming or what they are learning, learning about the...
by Judith Heaney | Oct 6, 2025 | 365 Reasons
A few years ago, instead of taking down our Christmas tree, I thought it might be kind of fun to keep the tree up and make it an around-the-year tree. Maybe I didn’t want to have to pack it up and get it back in the closet, but actually I’d seen something online...
by Judith Heaney | Oct 3, 2025 | 365 Reasons
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I love spending time reading books aloud with my two awesome teenagers. Right now, we are reading the New York Times Bestseller Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, and I have to say it is an absolute delight—both the...
by Judith Heaney | Oct 2, 2025 | 365 Reasons
There is an old, and ridiculous, expression that has irked me for many, many years, that children should be seen and not heard. I have traced the origins of this phrase from its coining by John Mirk in his 15th century religious writings directed to “young maidens,”...
by Judith Heaney | Sep 30, 2025 | 365 Reasons
Every Sunday my husband and I spend some time mapping out the coming week and this almost always begins with updating our oversized whiteboard makeshift calendar for the week. This is the place he and I look multiple times a day to see what’s coming up for that day or...
