Living Life Well
Laura Tremaine’s new book quickly hit my favorite’s list as I read it this month. She titled it Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First. and each chapter answers a question with a series of her life stories. She can weave a story and bring the reader up close through her honest details. I looked forward …
Just before my son Mitch turned two, we broke his habit of using a pacifier when falling asleep. Those little pacifiers comforted and calmed him his whole life up to that point. He took the transition like a trooper, but you could tell the change was hard. He needed a substitute to replace his former …
What are you known for? When your family and friends think of you and how you show kindness, what comes to their minds? Can you make delicious homemade bread that you share? Do you drive a big pickup truck and are willing to help people move? Do you grow flowers in the summer and make …
The weekly commitments on my calendar serve as benchmarks in my week. I’m often surprised at how quickly the week passes and we are at another Thursday and blog post. The ticking of the clock and flipping of calendar pages is easier when I pause to remember and reflect on what is occurring in my …
While walking from the clinic, where I just finished a doctor’s appointment, to my van, I noticed the vehicle of a friend parked a few spaces from mine. I remembered she and I had figured out earlier in the week we both scheduled OB appointments minutes apart. Her vehicle was covered in dirt, the back …
Do you move so quickly through the moments of your day that you can’t recall what you had for lunch yesterday or have no idea how you spent last Saturday? Aren’t our productive lives hurried? With so much to do in each 24 hours, we don’t give much pause to celebrate a job well done …
History accounts that St. Valentine wrote love letters to a jailer’s daughter while he sat in prison for his faith. He was martyred in the third century…an abrupt ending to the lovers’ letter exchange. Love letter writing has been going on for a long, long time. It was through letter writing that my romance with …
Are you the primary dish washer in your home? This is one of my tasks I’m pretty committed to managing. However, there are nights that I go to bed with dishes in the sink. I despise when I wake up and enter the kitchen to be greeted with a mess. I am learning a trick …
Do you ever wrestle with feelings that you are not enough? Do you feel like you should do more in an area of your life? Perhaps you may think: I am not smart enough, healthy enough, or strong enough. I deal with these feelings on occasion…this week similar thoughts were rocketing around my brain until I was …
A popular podcast I enjoy hosted by Emily P. Freeman is called “The Next Right Thing.” Her topics center around doing the next right thing in love. She readily admits she didn’t come up with this term on her own. Mother Teresa, Anne Lamott, Martin Luther King Jr., and Theodore Roosevelt have their own versions …