by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 17, 2012 | Life Lessons
“Learn to accept the possibility that the universe is helping you with what you are doing.” Julie Cameron, The Artist’s Way Just when I was wishing I knew somebody familiar with my blog software (WordPress), my son’s First Grade teacher...
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...