by Judith Heaney | Apr 3, 2025 | 365 Reasons
I think the hardest thing for us to see in ourselves is our courage. Not only are we hard pressed to recognize any sense of bravery in ourselves, but we also find it difficult to believe any words about our fearlessness from others, whether friend or parent or...
by Judith Heaney | Apr 2, 2025 | 365 Reasons
There’s an expression, a popular proverb, whose origins are unknown but a form of it appears in the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. The original proverb says, the road to hell is paved with good intentions and the Ecclesiastes verse reads, the way of sinners is...
by Judith Heaney | Apr 1, 2025 | 365 Reasons
There are days when I don’t start these posts until it is much later than I planned or anticipated. Life, as the saying goes, sometimes gets in between us and our plans. Even so, despite my 17 year old suggesting it would be okay to skip a day, I settle myself in...
by Judith Heaney | Mar 31, 2025 | 365 Reasons
It’s Birthday Eve Day for the 14 year old and of course that means I am considering all the ways life has changed over the years for us and for the 14 year old. The ways our youngest has navigated through the years, shedding her childhood and morphing into a teenager....
by Judith Heaney | Mar 30, 2025 | 365 Reasons
There is a time as a parent when you become acutely aware of the quiet, but instead of it inspiring you to relax, it spurs you to investigate as if you are Sherlock Holmes himself. You know what I’m talking about, especially if you have been the parent of young...