Will you be making any New Year’s resolutions? As we ring in the new year, I thought I’d share Golden Rules for Living by Miriam Hamilton Keare. These simple rules are useful for all, but especially easy for children to understand and practice. Print and post the rules to your fridge for daily reading and […]
inspirational
Believing is Seeing- 5 Holiday Family Friendly Movies That Inspire
As many do at this time of year with short winter days and long cold nights, my family and I watch a lot of inspirational movies. We don’t have a TV, so we gather in front of the computer to watch our favorite movies on Youtube, Hulu, or Google Video. What’s great is that […]
Forty and Pregnant
If we consider our thoughts as prayers and saying them aloud as complete affirmation of our desires, we must be prepared when our prayers are answered. When in my early 20’s, woman’s intuition told me that I would have a change of life baby, I expressed this thought to my husband. We had never […]
Thrifty
With talk of our depressed economy, I am reminded of my Granny’s insistence of waste not. “Don’t fill the bathtub with more than two inches of water,” she would say. “And don’t flush the toilet for number one”. Memories of conserving water give examples of her frugality, while a freezer of frozen Hershey Bars to […]
Ticket to Freedom
What do you want to do when you grow up? If you have an answer to this question, it will never change. The years will bring plenty of justifications and excuses, but the child within you knows the truth. My dream was to be a mountain man, alone in the wilderness. The plan was […]
Queer Creatures
What queer creatures we are! Purely on hearsay do we accept, as factual, concepts that are utterly incomprehensible to the senses we experience this universe through. We accept that strangers have done the research and if something sounds good then it becomes part of our reality. Several years ago, while on sabbatical, I realized […]
Mr. Wizard
Recently I read a discourse between some children discussing parents. One stated that her parents don’t want her to change. Perhaps they were trying to avoid losing their rough and tumble mud loving tomboy. The next thought her ignorant parents were incapable of accepting any but preconceived notions about her. Another wondered if all parents […]
Shadow People
Upon sensing their presence, Sweet Mom stands in the nursery and admonishes the visitors to do her babies no harm. It is said that babies bring links to that forgotten place where we all come from. Our experience living with little people has always brought us into contact with this unseen and perhaps forgotten world. […]
Not Shadow People
Today I was going to tell the story of our encounters with the Shadow People. While reminiscing about the events, I realized that I must tell of the wonderful place they made their first appearances. While others slept, I was fortunate to inhabit a place of solitude where all things became possible. Night was […]
Answers
As a teenager, I would enjoy this little exercise: When asked the time, I would just blurt out the correct time. Next I would check my watch to verify my accuracy. As a young parent, I could hear Sweet Mom quizzing a kid on schoolwork in another room. The door was closed and their […]