You Can't Choose Your Children's Memories
An excerpt from One Mom to Another: Be Kind to Yourself, Embrace the Good, Find Joy in the Everyday. A few years ago, my daughter...
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Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day!
Rich and I plant zucchini every year. It's the one crop we always know will produce. Every year, regardless of where we live, the type of...
Tell an Old Joke Day!
Rich loves corny jokes. For example, when we are driving anywhere with our children and pass by a cemetery: “That’s a really nice...
Happy Peanut Butter Cookie Day
Luke and Nora, two of my grandchildren, came over and helped me bake some cookies for Peanut Butter Cookie Day (June 12th). The recipe I...
Summer Summit
It’s here: the end of the school year! The last month of the school year is not unlike the last month of pregnancy. Women are tired, worn...
The Sacredness of Now
(excerpt from "One Mom to Another" - A Mighty Work.) I once gave a talk in a women’s conference with the theme, “With Joy Wend Your...
Why Can't You Just Get Along ?
We were driving from Ohio to Indiana in a blinding rainstorm. Rich had a new job and I was driving the children to meet him and look for...
Loss
An excerpt from my book, One Mom to Another. Dayne taught me we are all the same. As a young man, Blake completed two years of...
Mealtime Mayhem
One night, when I couldn’t think of anything to make and didn’t have the energy to make it anyway, I came up with the idea to have our...
All Women Are Superheroes
I have always enjoyed superheroes. I mean, they are “super” and are “heroes.” In fifth grade, my friends Mickey, Kevin, Bill, and I...
Reframe our Measure of Success
(Excerpt from the chapter "That Time I Shut the Day Down") Most years, Rich takes our children, William, Eric, Daniel, Caroline and...
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