Allowances: Teaching Teens How to Manage Their Money
My husband (who's celebrating his birthday today!!) is an excellent financial manager. This has proven important in our marriage since I’m partial to words, not math or anything remotely associated with budgets--he’s much better at crunching numbers and...
Waltz of the Bubbles
I Heart Faces: Head, Shoulders, Knees &/or Toes
My submission for this week's I Heart Faces photo challenge; and I sure did have a hard time choosing! This picture exudes joie de vivre, and I just love the memory of my little niece twirling in circles of bubbles....
Mother of all love
"It's not a contact sport" my behind. Thursday a song about unrequited love kept running through my head as I tried desperately to fly over traffic to rush my 16-year-old to the hospital after he broke his wrist in a soccer scrimmage. Funny how...
I don’t wanna live like I don’t care….
I Refuse by Josh Wilson....convicting without condemnation, a song that preaches. There's a huge difference between thinkin' about doing something and doing something. Bonus: If you live in the Chattanooga area, hear Josh perform this and much...
Saving Face
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~Author Unknown With all the fame and all the fortune associated with being a celebrity, I feel sorry for them; I cannot imagine living under the unforgiving and relentless microscope of...
Violet love: a camp memoir
Sometimes I miss, even long for, the naïveté of youth. Then is the time for free and innocent expression... before you realize sometimes words have dual meaning. For me, summers at the all-girls Jennie Arnold Edwards Y Camp in the 70s...
Miracle worker
While I was meeting the Sharrock family the morning after they saw their newly-built Extreme Makeover home for the first time, a post of mine was published over at Therapon's Connect Community-- "Ten years ago I stumbled across a product that worked so...
Angry bird?
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.~ Jacques Deval On my way home today, I saw a leaf twirling in the center of the road. Except it wasn't a leaf; it was a peculiar little bird spinning in circles. I stopped and...
Coincidence schmoincidence…
It had “random” and “coincidence” written all over it–- I had finally remembered to take an ancient picture to Walgreens to have it duplicated and enlarged, something on my to-do list for about a year. Ready on Tuesday, I couldn’t get there...