I’m not very proud of the fact that my husband and I let our boys watch a lot of movies. They probably don’t spend more time in front of the TV than most kids, but they do watch a lot of movies. And while I think it would be good…
Forgiveness
“…And forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who tresspass against us…” Those are familiar words, but, too often, a foreign concept. We live in a culture that remembers and encourages us to stoke anger and feed grudges. After all, if the wife of the politician who cheated with…
Salt
We don't know what we don't know. And sometimes, that's blissful ignorance. But our bliss may be someone else's salt in a wound. Take for instance, all the corporate mailing lists that have me in their "She's Pregnant!" databases. (For anyone who hasn't been pregnant and experienced the JOY of…
Making Memories Stick
I’m fairly accomplished at making comments on other people’s blogs that would actually qualify as posts on my own. Yet I stink at keeping my own blog up to date. Maybe I just need their posts as prompts. Anyhow, this is a Copy+Paste from a comment on another blog, but…
Dear ginger’s inner Cher
(In response to ginger @ The Bubble Wrap Chronicles "revelations by my inner cher" — http://thebubblewrapchronicles.blogspot.com/2010/10/revelations-by-my-inner-cher.html) This has been in my head, weighing heavily, since your fb status last night. I understand your frustration. I've felt it. But I still think you're missing out on something. You know me well…