Daily Thoughts
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...
The Paths We Get to Travel
Yesterday, as we watched Bohemian Rhapsody for the second time, my oldest teenager pointed out how often I say the scene playing is my favorite—”Oh, this is my favorite scene in the movie,” I said over, and over, and over again. It’s a thing I tend to do apparently,...
Movies, Chicken Soup & Big Magic on Off Days
Today, the hours passed more quickly than I anticipated and with each passing hour I became more and more acutely aware that these words had not been written and this post had not been done and my mind was moving in too many directions to rein in for more than a few...
Hearts on Fire
While I tend to try and limit my time on social media in favor of other activities, like reading or listening to a good book or, even better, working on a writing project, there are definitely times I give in to the desire to scroll somewhat mindlessly through one of...