Raking the Sand — Literally

“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...

Seizure Day

“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...

I Dare You

“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...

Zigzag Mama

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...