Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It sounds cliche, but a holiday where gratitude is the main focus is my kind of celebration. I’ve been on a journey of gratitude for the last two years and it has changed my life completely. I have tried hard to stop putting my attention and energy into the things [...]
It takes a village to raise a child. Or at the very least: one superhuman parent. Every now and then I don my cape and play that wonder woman. Like many moms out there, when my husband goes away on business, I unofficially become a ‘single parent’. And, also like most moms out there, it’s not [...]
Dear Girlfriend, I need to tell you something. You are one of the most tremendous human beings I have ever met. Not only are you beautiful on the outside, you have this amazing ability to allow your inner beauty to shine through and magnify all of your gifts. You are a wonderful daughter, sister, mother, [...]
What are the tapes in your head playing over and over again? When making decisions or thinking about your dreams and desires, do they often get hijacked by a but or an I can’t because? For most of us the answer is yes. The question, though, is why? Why do we allow ourselves to be [...]
My husband and I are searching, feverishly, for a new healthy lifestyle. We’ve read a lot of articles and books that say we need more of this and less of that, a few pills here and a few pills there, and finish up with some yoga. This magical combination is supposed to clear up my [...]
Today, I’m grateful for… 1. Dandelions. While I was driving along the highway looking at fields of dandelions, it came to me that God can make beauty out of weeds. Since I’m a sucker for an object lesson, I realized that God can also make beauty out of the weeds in my life. Something to [...]
In the mornings, in the evenings, in the hot, hot afternoons, I have been standing barefoot and apron-beclad in my kitchen, canning. This act, in this time, is especially fraught; while on one hand it is viewed as an act so radical it’s at the center of a few back-to-the-land-style movements — Radical Homemaking, the [...]