by Robin | Jun 26, 2014 | Advice, Affiliate links used, Encouragement, Family, Favorite things, friendship, Great quotes, Love Gifts, Memoir, Personal, Real beauty, The Wonder of a Woman, Uncategorized, Women
My sister gave me a gift last week and it made me so happy I screamed. Literally. We were alone in my house sitting on my youngest son’s bed, for a reason I can’t recall now. She handed me a package neatly ribboned and wrapped in the brown paper sack from...
by Robin | Feb 27, 2013 | Aging, Faith, Real beauty, Women
My cell phone rings, and it’s my doctor’s office, and I know this because long ago, and what now seems far away, I was smart enough to program their number so if I ever needed to call them, I’d already have it stored in contacts. Which, also means,...
by Robin | Oct 31, 2011 | Beauty, Inspiring, Real beauty, Therapon
I can only spell it when I cheat, and I'm too scared to pronounce it out loud, but Karen Walrond's blog Chookooloonks is one of my favorites. Her words infuse me with so much positive energy I'm quite certain one day I might spontaneously...
by Robin | Jul 25, 2011 | Bargains, Connect ~ Community by Therapon, Face2Face, Health, Real beauty, Therapon
No one could have been more surprised than me to try a skincare product that made a difference the first time I tried it. But when I was asked to partner with Theraderm, first to host a Face 2 Face event in Chattanooga, then to write for their beauty site, The...
by Robin | Jul 13, 2011 | Art, Biltmore trip, Favorite things, Inspiring, Nature, Photos, Plants & flowers, Real beauty
Note: Click to bigify the pictures–OHMYWORD blog-size does NOT do them justice! "B" is for… bumbley… and beautiful… and busy… and beady-eyed… And "b" is for buggy… and (wanna)bee Beautiful flowers...
by Robin | Jan 17, 2011 | Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Real beauty, Smiles, Sponsored post
I've always been a smiler. In grainy black and white images from my youngest years, evolving to grainy matte finished images from a Kodak Instamatic, I always mugged for the camera like my parents were paparazzi. Even when I was snaggled toothed. ...