Here’s the current situation in my home: “You took the bigger slice. That’s not fair!” “Stop calling me names. You’re so rude!!” Perhaps this banter sounds familiar from growing up with siblings. Or maybe, like me, you have the “joy” of listening to it now between your children. After all the screaming and shouting, it […]
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 […]
The picture is about as old school as you can get. That is obvious. What isn’t so obvious is that we had been arguing on the way to the studio. Unfortunately, that was the case for the first few years of our marriage. I can remember another time that my husband and I were at […]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly care to look at myself in the mirror. I see my imperfections … every single one of them … and I feel unhappy. Yet, seeing those flaws helps me decide how to address them. When I saw my first gray hair, for example, I just yanked […]
Tough Times
This year has been a challenging journey for me. There have been unexpected detours that felt overwhelming and stressful. Truthfully, they left me feeling weary. Some days all I could see was everything that had
