As moms, we often work so hard living up to unrealistic images of perfection from society, our families, our mothers and our own personal DNA. We buy into the culture of being a supermom, even if it just about kills us in the process. Lisa-Jo of the Gypsy Mama wrote an uplifting post about it […]
Moms-Take five for a date
April 9, 2012 By 21 Comments
Moms, we are notorious for not taking time for ourselves. Do our kids need help with homework? We’re there. Is our child’s sports team asking for volunteers? We’re on it. Does someone need to get to an appointment? We’ll drive them. We will just keep scraping the bottom of the barrel for any […]
A family only a mother can love
April 2, 2012 By 11 Comments
When we get together with our families for holiday dinners, we may wish for a gathering worthy of a Norman Rockwell portrait. The reality is, however, that we are all blemished and broken, sometimes thorny and troublesome people, and yet still, somehow, generally speaking, are eminently and uniquely lovable. That being said, we often spend […]
The bane of “Must be Nice”
March 26, 2012 By 26 Comments
Wait. Shhh. Do you hear that sound? It’s the whirr of your inner lens constantly refocusing while you search for the perfect subject. It’s the satisfying click when you capture that small snapshot of another person’s life. What do you do with this prize? Well, you snip it from the album of context, of course, […]
Rescuing your marriage-reaching for resources
February 8, 2012 By 14 Comments
Welcome to the follow up to Rescuing Your Marriage-Looking Back from the Future. If you missed it, I encourage you to take a few moments to go back and read it, and to please think about stepping back from your willingness to walk away from your marriage. Instead you can flirt with the idea that […]
Rescuing your marriage by looking back from the future
February 6, 2012 By 19 Comments
I am wading into the deep, dark waters of marriages that are going down for the last time, where the last vestiges of love are drowning in the waves of unmet expectations, hurt, anger and selfishness. I just can’t stand on the sidelines this time shaking my head and saying What a shame. They seemed […]
Five Minute Friday-Real
February 3, 2012 By 10 Comments
We sit in a circle. Waiting. Watching. Worrying. Wondering how real we can be. Wondering how real others will be. As facilitator of the group, I jump in to break the ice. They’ve heard some of our story, how my husband and I have done a lifetime of stupid. Of how we ran arm in […]
Five Minute Friday-Roar
January 6, 2012 By 18 Comments
The knock comes again, at my front door, this time more firm and determined. I’ve been down these stairs before. I think that every time it will be different. That my inner optimistic child, who hears the pounding of our answered prayers, will grab my hand and I will run joyfully right alongside her, to […]
Five Minute Friday-Tired
December 2, 2011 By 18 Comments
Whew. Some days my load is so heavy that I have all I can do to keep from going over backwards. I feel like the little dog in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas as he works mightily to pull all those stolen gifts up that steep mountain. However, it is no load of gifts that […]
Standing against the hurricane-making choices that work
October 19, 2011 By 6 Comments
Having raised two lovely daughters to adulthood, worked side by side with my family for over seventeen years and my husband and parents for another five, I have discovered there are a lot of similarities between being an effective parent and a productive business person. They both require dealing with all kinds of […]
