Insights for uncommon joy in the everyday
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 […]
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While journaling the past couple of mornings, the topic of fear kept popping up, and I realized I have written quite a bit about that topic, both lately and over the past couple of years. It’s not that I see myself as that quivering mass of jello in the back of the fridge, praying […]
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Welcome to Five Minute Friday, where we join Lisa-Jo at The Gypsy Mama on just writing for five straight minutes, no editing, no criticizing, no worrying. Just writing and letting it fly. If you would like to join us, click on the link at the bottom of this post. Welcome to my version this […]
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I recently needed a memory card for my camera, so I did a little research about what was available and then checked on a store’s website to find that it was going to be just under $20. I could even order it online and have it shipped to the store for no additional charge. Since […]
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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 […]
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Joining Lisa-Jo for her Five minute Friday prompt of “Still”. Today she writes: So on Fridays, we take the dare to become Word Artists. To throw editing and proof reading and critically raised eyebrows out the window. We finger paint with our words – in pink and blue and dark purple. In glitter glue and bright […]
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I have loved photography since my dear hubbie gave me a real 35mm camera for my birthday over 25 years ago, when we were expecting our first child. However, loving photography and doing it well were two very different matters. Amongst the thousands of photos I took for the next couple of decades—especially documenting […]
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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 […]
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I’ve written lately about being dissatisfied with how I was leading my life, about feeling like the wheels on my bus were going ka-thunk, ka-thunk, ka-thunk, thinking about unopened gifts that might be in the closet, and recognizing that each of us wants to live a life that matters. Do you have that niggling feeling […]
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