Spirit and I got out of Dodge last night. After thinking about it for years, I finally said, "This is the time." It wasn't an angry, "I'm leaving!" kind of decision. Or, "You...
Today Spirit stumbled coming up the three steps from the back patio. His hindquarters just collapsed. I helped him up and he was wagging his tail as soon as he made it into the house,...
Are you a joiner type of person? Or do you prefer to work solo? Do you find safety in numbers, or do you feel alone in a crowd? I've always tended to be in the latter category. Although...
I hope you've enjoyed the holidays as much as I have. This year has been especially rich in family time for us, with my mother's 80th birthday a few weeks ago bringing loved ones in from...
How often do you wish you had a second chance at something? The great thing about life, if you're paying attention, is that very often you do get to try again. In the classic comedy film...
On the anniversary of Newtown, and with our holiday lights twinkling once again in the moonlight, it felt right to repost the piece I wrote shortly after the school shootings in...
Despite my best intentions, I've fallen off my blogging schedule the past few weeks. This is my second round of blogging through the holidays, and I learned last year just how hard it is...
With the holidays coming up and to-do lists getting longer and longer, I thought this week would be a good time to reprint a post I wrote back in August for the personal development...
"How you experience life isn't about what happens to you, but about how you react to it." ~ Eckhart Tolle When was the last time a perfect stranger swore at you? I'm talking heavy duty "I...
The events I'm about to recount happened several months ago. Though I had expected to write about them much sooner, I realize now that Halloween week is the perfect time to share my ghost...
"I can't believe we're actually doing this!" Donna hugged me excitedly and continued, "We're actually here!" We stood with around 35,000 of our closest friends in the Pentagon parking lot...
Editor's Note: Today's post is reprinted from Yvonne Watterson's website Consider the Lilies ~ & Lessons From the Field. What has surprised me most since my own breast cancer diagnosis...