When the Monkey Mind Meets Gratitude
Chimpanzee at the St. Louis Zoo, October 2010 There are times when my monkey mind is so bad, meditating barely makes a dent in it, and peace eludes me. This has been the case more often than not...
View ArticlePeace With My Mom
Mom and her parents on her wedding day (barely 18 years old) My mom and I had a complex, often difficult, relationship. I wanted her love and approval, but felt I didn’t have it. I wanted her to...
View ArticleThe ABC Award
What a delight – yesterday I learned that Alison and Don at Adventures in Wonderland had nominated me for the ABC Award. My first thought was, “How wonderful – I’m honored!” My second thought was,...
View ArticleGrateful For My Challenges, Er, Growth Opportunity
Being a serious student on the path of personal and spiritual growth sure has its moments. Since last Friday morning, multiple fantastic (and by fantastic, I mean confusing, painful, and scary) things...
View ArticleRadical Forgiveness
One of the most pivotal events of my life was reading A Radical Incarnation by Colin Tipping. The book is a spiritual analogy that complements his how-to book Radical Forgiveness. In both books,...
View ArticleBlue is Beautiful
I was touched by the comments I received after writing about having the blues last Friday, and grateful for what they reminded me: I am not defective or any less valuable when I slip out of my normally...
View ArticleWordPress Family Award
Two days ago, 10 minutes apart, 2 fellow bloggers nominated me for 2 different blogging awards. Isn’t that nice?! I’m really flattered, but a skosh overwhelmed – each of these awards require...
View ArticleVersatile Blogger Award…Sort Of
As I mentioned last Friday, I was flattered to be nominated for two awards last week. In that post I wrote about receiving the WordPress Family Award, and today I’m writing about the Versatile Blogger...
View ArticleThe Joys Of Aging
For all the crazy fears our society has toward aging and all the ways we try to not look our age, I haven’t had one friend tell me they would like to go back to a younger age. Me neither. I cherish...
View ArticlePeace, Thanks To Bloggers For Peace
“Well,” KM said with a bit of a sneer, “They must get annoyed with you being there and bugging them all the time.” I responded politely, and continued our joint presentation to the group of parents...
View ArticleHappy Belated Birthday, Dad
Dad and my aunt Tookie Yesterday was my Dad’s 72nd birthday. I’ve felt a nudge to write about him for a couple of weeks, and now that I’m finally getting to it, I’m hemming and hawing. I enjoyed...
View ArticleCee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Happy
The more sparkles the better at 2 years old I hit the jackpot twice in the motherhood department, and this post is an outpouring of happiness over my second daughter Jamie. As soon as Jamie started...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Family
My soul chose wisely by coming to my huge extended family, parents, and brothers. They are wonderful people and I love(d) them very much, but I can really relate to Mary Engelbreit’s quote “Let’s put...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Juxtapositions (in a stay at home mom’s life)
When Karen was 3 years old and Jamie only 6 months old (June 1998), I wanted to juxtapose their handprints. Jamie was too young to keep her hands open for the adventure, so her footprints had to do. By...
View ArticleI’m Somebody!
I feel like Steve Martin when he exclaimed (something along the lines of), “The new phone book is here! I’m somebody!” The feeling surged through me this morning when I read Tunisia Jolyn’s interview...
View ArticleHow I Got My Groove Back
It all started with abdominal cramps. Nothing major, barely noticeable, and surely they would pass within an hour or so. Except they didn’t. It was my first day of having the house to myself after my...
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