My warmest wishes to all of you for a very merry Christmas. Thank you so much for your continued support, kind comments and wonderful feedback to my blogs and posts again this year. Your support means the world to me. I will be back with more writing in 2019 thanks to your encouragement and love. …
The other night I was able to go to bed a bit early (gasp!) and curl up with my November book club read. A few minutes into my relaxation I read these words, “As she swam she gloried in the fact that there was nowhere to be, nothing to do, no one to worry about. No jazz …
Yesterday a very close and very hip friend of mine told me it was National Nacho Day. She wasn’t kidding! I was curious how we had a day for nachos and wondered what else we had a day for. I went to my wise and gifted teacher Professor Google and found out that there are …
Happy Halloween! 🎃 I was with someone yesterday afternoon that I greatly look up to and in our discussion, she said something so simple yet so profound that has stuck with me since; “Every person comes with their own set of issues.” These words are timely with Halloween being today as this can also be …
As the neighbor’s leaf blower roars as I’m trying to get some peace and quiet I wonder why some days are like this. I’m irritable, cranky, everything seems to bother me. Is it the almost full moon? The lack of sleep? The amount of sugar I have been eating lately? Hormones? Yet, thirty minutes after …
I went to a yoga class early this morning not realizing at the time how much it would relate to my life right now. Funny how these things happen isn’t it? My good friend and favorite yoga teacher (thank you J!) was leading class and as usual was kicking my butt. But it …
Putting “back to school” in the back of our minds, this past Saturday at 4:15 a.m., my family and I awoke in a tent with our two dogs, our hearts filled with ambition. Cold, tired and excited we put on layers of clothes, headlamps and our hiking boots and prepared to climb Mount Elbert, the …
I just volunteered for the very last time at my daughters’ elementary school. I am hanging up my hall pass. I am finished with Kindergarten “centers” and cutting along the dotted lines. I will no longer help little hands hold glue guns and place bottle caps and pom-poms on paper. I will not be sitting …
This past week I was lucky enough to have some time to myself on a beach in Florida. During this time I sat down on a rock, waves lapping at my feet, and I thought about how very thankful I am for all the blessings in my life. And as the sun glistened on the …
My family and I recently returned from an amazing vacation. We scuba dove, snorkeled, rode horses bareback in clear Caribbean water…. It truly was a vacation one only dreams about. My gratefulness for our experience is beyond words, truly indescribable. But beyond this, beyond every incredible thing we did on our trip the the real …
All week I have felt heavy and tired and sad. All week I have felt the need to cry and have done so. But as I sit today and listen to my Guardian Angel it comes to me that what I have been carrying this week is not my own sadness, but that of those …
It’s hard for me to admit it, but I do feel Mamma doesn’t always know best. Ok, a lot of times I feel we do, but not always. I don’t feel we ever know more than our children’s own intuition. I believe this intuition comes from our Angels and is a gut feeling. It is that …
It always amazes me in life how I seem to hear what I need to hear at exactly the right time or meet the person I need to meet exactly when I need to meet them. Even last week the day after I was talking about trusting the universe I found a …
This morning began in bed with my two younger daughters and our dog. Nowhere to hurry to. Nowhere to be. Nothing but time and each other. As the snowflakes fell outside the window the girls brought out their baby books and one at a time we paged through them. We laughed. We made “oohs” …
This week the chorus of a popular Rolling Stones song has been rolling through my head, “You can’t always get what you want, you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need….” You may think it strange to write about Mick Jagger and …