Once upon a time, not so long ago, in a kingdom, far, far away, there lived a girl. Not just any girl, of course! Our heroine was a Shopping kind of girl. A thrift shop junkie, an American Picker wanna-be, an I-Break-For-Yard-Sales woman, a Craigslist and ebay peruser. This kind...
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Stories have a structure. Stories have an emotional logic. There are tried and true ways to say something meaningful without being cliché or preachy....
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Even with health insurance, medical costs are taking a larger chunk out of family’s budget. Today millions of Americans have a high deductible health plan, meaning they have to pay thousands for doctor visits, prescription drugs, urgent care, X-rays and more. But there is a way to curb costs and...
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I have learned a lot about the needs of my husband and how my words can affect him negatively or positively. I would like to share seven things that I have learned my husband loves to hear me say to him....
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Looking at the adults in his audience, Cleese began his talk by saying, “I cannot tell you anything about how to be creative, only what kind of childhood you ought to have had.”...
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When I was young – back in the olden days, by crikey – I longed for a pony. My longing would not be fulfilled by roly-poly bugs named Juan, stray cats that refused to cuddle, or the occasional frog that was captured, named, and snuggled, and who played dead at...
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John and I loved having teens. We had dinner nightly with them, we served in church together, and we enjoyed long talks. To do this we had to be open and available....
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When math becomes a struggle, don’t just sit there telling your child to keep plugging along till midnight. Switch it up. Create a game. Change the dance. And along the way, you may find you’ve made math fun!...
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The mind feeds on IDEAS. We all know that books contain an incredible storehouse of IDEAS from a great variety of individuals throughout history. Gilbert Highet stated it well when he said, “These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.”...
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You don’t have to know what you’re going to do and where you’re going to be and when you’ll arrive. You just have to enjoy the journey....
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