You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Especially If You Don’t Ask For It)
So, I have a flaw. Yes, I have more than one, you smart asses -- but this is the one I am choosing to talk about today. And, I think that the revelation of this flaw and the proposed solution might help you. Because I have a sneaking suspicion that you, my loyal...
What The Ocean Has Taught Me
It is no secret to anyone that knows me, even marginally well, that I love the ocean. Not ponds. Not pools. Not lakes -- or rivers. The ocean. I am wonderfully fortunate to live within an hour's drive of some of what I consider to be the most beautiful beaches on...
Celebrating the Kindness of Strangers
About 5 weeks ago, I embarked on an online journey with 154 other women. I guess I was searching for something. I suppose it was a little bit of me just wanting to do something completely and totally for me -- no kids, no husband, no family, no friends, no baggage. It...
Can You Fly in Your Dreams?
The answer in next week's "I AM: Self-Esteem Through Art" class is a RESOUNDING YES! Melinda and I spent some time this week putting the finishing touches on the class, assembling the packets, creating our additional activities, and working on mock-ups. We totally...
Things That Make Me Happy
Keeping it light today with a little visual eye candy. I was inspired to look around and think about what makes me happy. What inanimate objects bring me the most joy? What are some of the things I could not live without? How about you? What makes your heart soar? I...
Upcoming Class For Kids — Registration Open!
Hey loyal readers, It's been a long time coming, but an idea I've had for a kids' art class has now come to fruition. It is called "I AM: Self Esteem Through Art." I am really looking forward to this. Being in the anti-aging business, I don't really get to interact...
A Not-So-Fictional Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, there lived a Princess who was so filled with emotions. She laughed and smiled when she was happy, and also had an innate knack for filling her world with laughter even if she was very, very sad. She used humor to diffuse uncomfortable situations or...
Leaving the Nest
About 10 days ago, I was alerted to a bird's nest by my two children. The nest sits nestled away in a forsythia bush right outside my bedroom window. Since the bush is on the north side of the house (and is long past bloom), it does not get much attention. So, had my...
Things I Love About You — A Photoblog
You were perfectly pink on the day you were born, seven years ago. With your black tuft of hair, your kissable lips, and the broken blood vessel on the tip of your nose (that we can still see, if we look hard enough). I loved your sweet baby newness. Your warmth. Your...
The Little Miss Project
I consider myself very fortunate. I have two beautiful, healthy, kind, intelligent, and athletic elementary-aged children. They have taught me more about life in the past 10 years than I ever learned on my own. Being that they are in elementary school, we get to...
Fleeting Statements, Lifelong Impact
The memories of my childhood are sometimes spotty, and sometimes it will take a photograph or a detailed reminder from a family member to gently dust the cobwebs off of the recesses of my mind. Time has a way of doing that, of tucking away what were once your most...
She…
Ten years ago today, a week overdue, she came into this world. From her first breath, she was bright-eyed, alert, and eager to soak it all in. There was this sense of "knowing" about her (for lack of a better word), and it seemed like she was already very familiar...