The challenges of parenting today

June 29, 2026
parenting
I can't think of anything harder than parenting today. I don't have children of my own, but I clearly see the challenges in raising them today. It must feel like like trying to raise a human in a house with no walls and a thousand open windows. Your kids hear every voice and are exposed to every...
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Leave a Comment · Healthy Living, Inspiration

Do you “see color?” What does that really mean?

July 19, 2022
see-color
On a TV show the other night a woman claimed she did not "see color" and the people of color in the group went crazy because it sounded like she was invalidating their...
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14 Comments · Opinion

On this day, 50 years ago

July 15, 2022
50-years
It wasn't unusual 50 years ago to see this Oldsmobile Cutlass on the road. What is an Oldsmobile, you ask? It was a division of General Motors and its last car came...
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12 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Soul School, Spirituality

How to make a cappuccino without the expensive equipment

July 13, 2022
cappucino
I love a good cappuccino. But I have no interest in buying expensive espresso-making equipment, taking up counter space with it OR taking it in and out of a...
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14 Comments · Blog

Leaving this world of ours too soon, but with so much grace

July 11, 2022
The first line of her last post read The final day. My friend had been diagnosed just over a month earlier with a fast-moving terminal cancer and now, she was...
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23 Comments · Inspiration, Soul School, Spirituality

What I no longer have time for

July 6, 2022
no-longer-have-time
The realization that I am pretty far down the timeline of my life has hit me hard in recent years. Of course, when your best friend is 92, the view changes a little: you...
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16 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

Has your heart been broken?

June 28, 2022
Has your heart been broken? If it has, my own heart goes out to you. I know what it feels like: I didn't reach my advanced age without an arrow or two to my own...
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2 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

Celebrate summer with scents and shades of the season

June 24, 2022
candles
Yes, candles for sale again! Gifts for you or someone else? I'm making a few of our beautiful summer candles with tiny shells and colorful seaglass, along with the...
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18 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Blog

How to find fulfillment when it seems elusive

June 22, 2022
fulfillment
Have you ever had that feeling that you are right where you are supposed to be, doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing? That happened to me last month in a...
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14 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

Hop in! Let’s take a ride down Memory Lane

June 19, 2022
take-a-ride
Wouldn't it be nice to hop in and take a ride back to a more innocent time? It wasn't a perfect time, not by a long shot, but it wasn't as openly vile as the zeitgeist...
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8 Comments · Blog

Karma’s in charge

June 15, 2022
karma
It's been my experience that intent is everything and what goes around, comes around. It may take a while., But in the end, karma is in charge. Karma's not...
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8 Comments · Blog, Soul School

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