While cleaning this morning, my allergies were in full revolt from the cleaning products. It is also a muggy day here and I couldn’t wait to finish my chores and get in the shower I had just scrubbed. I reached for the clean tissue I had set on the sink…
We are so fortunate to have so many choices in life. There are the ones we make every minute: what to have for lunch, how we wear our hair, what we read (if we even chose to read), where we go and what we do when we get there and…
I like to post original content on this blog but I saw this video this weekend and had to share it. Let’s commit to a week of ZERO FEAR. (Video courtesy of mateuszm.com)
Five years ago today my husband and I drove 90 minutes to the bird rescue to meet Piper, an orange-fronted conure I had found on petfinder.com. Brought into the large room and placed on a play gym he did not step up on our offered fingers and so we let…
While on my walk this morning, a woman in her car stopped and asked me for directions to a nearby highway. I have lived in this area my whole life so getting her where she needed to go was no problem. It is comical, though, that she had no idea…
I have been thinking about our passions and what happens when they become work. I don’t mean when they become a job, for example, if your passion is singing and you become a professional performer, but when you love something so much you are compelled to do it every day…
“Sometimes you are so focused on the future you don’t have time for the present. But at least you’re no longer consumed by the past.” — Sister Rain
Yesterday Darren Daulton died. He was a catcher for the Phillies in the 80s and 90s. My husband gave me the news when he came to bed last night. We were both avid Phillies fans during Daulton’s playing years and although we never met the man we felt like we…
Sometimes when I’m at the library I have to ask for help in finding a book. I always tell the person I am visually impaired and I wonder what the librarian thinks about someone getting a book who cannot see well enough to locate a particular title on the shelf. I…
In a world where we can easily order anything online, competitive companies market their “hassle-free returns”. But here’s a secret: The best return is having to send back an article of clothing because it’s too big.
