by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 16, 2012 | Life Lessons
“There are no problems; there are only situations.” Eckhart Tolle Spirit, my 11-year-old yellow lab/golden retriever mix, did me a favor yesterday. He waited until 5:45 am to have his seizure. It was only a little earlier than I had planned to get up...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 13, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders
See the little frog in the picture here? He didn’t ask me to, but I exposed him to the world when I opened my patio umbrella today. I seem to be doing that a lot this week — unintentionally exposing people (or frogs) who didn’t sign up for that. In...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 12, 2012 | Motivation
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt I am new to this wild world of social media. I had a Facebook site, but rarely used it. I don’t like to be a slave to the computer, preferring instead to be gardening or exercising or...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 11, 2012 | Mindful Parenting
All of us have our “Ah ha” moments, those events that serve as exclamation points over the span of our personal histories. In my motherhood journey, my first really big “Ah ha” happened when my two sons were around 7 and 4 years old. I went to...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 10, 2012 | Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
This morning I spent an hour trying to figure out how to link my blog to my heretofore little used Facebook page. I stumbled blindly through plug-ins and widgets and may have managed to get that little thumbs up icon activated, but the Follow Me link still...
