friends

While attending a wedding recently, a friend and I were chatting. Not only had we realized that it had been quite a while since we conversed, but it seemed that was the case with many of our friends who were also at the wedding. What had happened?  Oh right … 2020 … ‘nuff said, right? […]

Roses. Chocolates. Teddy bears. It’s that time of year when love is in the air and you can just feel it everywhere! But let’s face it. Sometimes, we find ourselves resenting this day if we haven’t met the man of our dreams yet or if we just feel pressure to spend a lot of money […]

Has jealousy ever driven you to say and do things that you are not proud of? When I was a young girl, my best friend and I had a lot in common.  We were the same age, we loved to talk, and we had a favorite older friend.  This friend was the one we looked […]

This past week, the lights went out in my daughter’s room, and it has not been an easy fix.  She has no problem with that, though, because it means she doesn’t have to sleep in her own room, which she is absolutely thrilled about. While her brothers are carted off to their rooms at bedtime, […]

Friends. Those are the folks we enjoy hanging out with. They add color to our lives in different ways through their personalities, interests, and our commonalities. “Friends make the world beautiful.” Then, there are those who we refer to as close friends. Most of us have at least one. You know, that person who we […]

Let’s imagine that I called you today and told you I’d like to come visit your home in a couple of hours. How would you feel? Panicked? Unprepared? Stressed? Most people, on receiving news of a guest, would naturally clean up the clutter in their home, work on a snack tray, and change into some […]