Love Is Seeing Them Smile

I remember when I was growing up there was a syndicated single-panel cartoon titled, Love Is…featuring a young woman and a young man illustrating whatever the simple caption described about love. As I recalled that comic, I looked up its origin and discovered the...

Steeped in Joy

Every now and then, as I move through my day, my eyes will fall on my two teenagers and I will experience a familiar feeling, a feeling that is an amalgamation of wonder and gratitude and love. I don’t know about the experience of other parents, but ever since these...

I Love What I See

As I settled into write this afternoon a young man asked me if I was working from this office location that is where I hang out waiting on one of my girls. He was curious and asked me several questions about my job and what I did. I told him I am the mama to the 17...

Love in Scrambled Thoughts

There are days I sit down at these keys and I wait. Wait for the idea to come into focus. Wait for the words to crystalize and begin to flow from my brain to my fingers and to the page. Wait for things to come together the way they usually do. I suppose I am spoiled...

Just Because

As you may know, the premise of this blog is that love is not so much an emotion we experience as depicted in the movies or books, a feeling that carries us away on clouds surrounded by rainbows and unicorns, but that love is a choice we get to make each and every day...