Tomorrow I fly home. I absolutely love to travel. If I flew home on a Wednesday and someone said ‘hey, I have an extra ticket leaving Saturday for …., wanna go?’ I would say ‘yes!’ I even go to obscure places like Moline, IL and Des Moines, IA. But tomorrow, I fly home and leave…
“Boy, you are awfully happy today!” As a hostess and cashier at a local diner I hear that comment and many variations of it on a daily basis. Someone asked me how it is that I am “always smiling”. I hadn’t really thought about it until she asked me – but now it has been…
Welcome to your life. That’s what popped into my head as I woke, and grabbed my phone to write. It’s that underlying thought that plagues me frequently. That conversation that continues to play in my mind. Your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be? Is it everything you wanted it to be? Is…
Have you ever felt that way? Ever look at yourself, your life, your family, your finances or your situation and wondered “How did it get to this point? What happened? How did I get here?” I know I have. Many times. Sometimes this is positive, other times its negative. Things happen slowly at first and…
So as we prepared for a hurricane that may or may not come our direction; it was amazing the variety of responses that we get when we talked about what was going on. Many people were staying in their homes, they were boarding up, they were gathering water, and gathering supplies for not just during…
Let me start off with the fact that I know that this is South Florida, I understand that we have a catastrophic hurricane threatening our state in the next few days and I am aware of the fear that has descended upon our area. I get it. People are in bad moods, they are thinking…
If you had asked me before, if I was a fearful person – I would probably have laughed at you. Me? Scared? Absolutely not. Do you know who I am? The stuff I have been through? Please. I don’t trust people, but that’s about as close to fear as I get. I would have gotten…
Are you kidding me? In the most magical place on earth, walking amongst all of the hustle and bustle and happiness one can imagine, I see a man carrying an infant in a front baby pouch. This infant looks to be so small that he/she can not even hold up their head for more than…
Don’t you wish you could be around other kids? Does that mean you don’t have any friends? Don’t you get bored being home all the time? Those were the questions I was asked the most. So let me set the record straight; I thank GOD that my parents homeschooled me. I feel like I am…
‘Oh. You homeschool?’ Used to be asked with such disdain. There was almost an air of superiority in the voice of the questioner at times, or occasionally a tone of utter disbelief. I would cringe when I heard it. I felt as if I had to defend myself and my daughter. Poor thing, she would…
