Welcome to the first post of an occasional feature I am introducing: The Weekly Wild Web Roundup, through which I share some of the great reads I find. My desire is to provide inspiration, hope, encouragement, how-to, or just plain old good-for-the-soul laughter from the information I highlight. ******************** Kara Chupp, of The Chuppies, wrote […]
Starting conversations with your kids-Pillow Journals
September 19, 2011 By 16 Comments
How do your conversations go with your school age kids? Let me take a stab at what might pass for a run-of-the-mill give and take between the two of you: How was your day? Ok. What did you do? Nothing. How’s that new class going? <Crickets chirping> Child has exited the building. *Sigh* So how […]
7 Day Stamina Challenge: Day 5 and Fraidy-Catness
September 12, 2011 By 10 Comments
When I first read about the 7 Day Stamina Challenge, I admit to feeling just a wee bit cocky. It’s that same foolish bravado you experience at the start of a new, ambitious exercise regime. How hard can it be, I asked, when the first challenge was to get up a half hour early? Not […]
Five minute Friday: Older
August 26, 2011 By 7 Comments
Every Friday I join Lisa-Jo over at The Gypsy Mama for a quick, no edit writing topic, and we each watch, often in surprise, at what appears beneath our tapping fingers in the short span of five minutes. Today, in honor of her birthday, we are going to share our thoughts on Older. Let’s put those fingers […]
More on letting go: I hope you dance
August 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
A couple of years ago I wrote about that moment of letting go, as your child seems to march directly from Pomp and Circumstance at their high school graduation to the future awaiting them through the open door of college. You wonder where the years went, as you think about that little five year old […]
Five minute Friday: Beauty
August 12, 2011 By 8 Comments
Every Friday I join Lisa-Jo over at The Gypsy Mama for a quick, no edit writing topic, and we each watch, often in surprise, at what appears beneath our tapping fingers in the short span of five minutes. This week she pulls together what has been on her heart of late and turns it […]
Mowing lawns and facing fears
August 1, 2011 By 8 Comments
Last night I helped my dear hubbie mow the lawn. All one gazillion acres of it. Ok. It’s not quite that big, but it feels that way when you are mowing the lawn for the FIRST TIME EVER in your entire life and you are on a rider that feels like it has forty horses […]
The BIG conversation you’ve been avoiding about money with your boomerang, and a success story
July 20, 2011 By 5 Comments
You are a parent, possibly with younger kids still at home, and one day, you get that dreaded call from one of your 20-something adult children, whether they have been out in the workplace or are nearing the end of their college years: “Mom, I can’t afford to live on my own. I need to […]
Keep the faith
May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Keep the faith Wordle © K. Hall When our children are babies, we are just so excited for that day when they can actually talk. That first spoken word: “mama”, “dada”, or even “no”, just brings us so much joy! Fast forward a few short years, and for the first time, we hear our beloved […]
