by Robin | Jul 9, 2014 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Personal, Uncategorized, Women
I’ve been counting down the days not only to share this with you, but to see it myself!! A few months ago I mentioned taking part in Atlanta’s inaugural Listen to Your Mother Show and today my performance is available on LTYM’s You Tube...
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 | May 22, 2014 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
How is it that I’ve never accomplished being two places at once but she’s everywhere I turn? In the blue mason jar on the kitchen counter. (Out of all the glasses I have, these are what she chooses to drink from. Every time.) In the half-eaten Zip-loc of...
by Robin | Dec 17, 2013 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff
He’s been singing for over an hour. In his room, studying for exams, with the door closed…singing. No matter where I go in our home, I can’t escape his song. This son of mine, prescribed as tone deaf by his preschool teacher (only to me, not...
by Robin | Nov 19, 2013 | Family, Parenting, Teens & Tweens
One of my most popular posts of all time is my graduation gift ideas post; it’s a carefully curated list enthusiastically approved and eagerly endorsed by my children and their friends. My niece said, “It’s a great list, Aunt Robin–I...
by Robin | Oct 4, 2013 | Family, Favorite things, Marriage, Memoir, Personal, The Wonder of a Woman, Travel, Washington, D.C.
“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Vacationing and sightseeing are not the same thing. A good vacation has medicinal value balming soul and spirit with rest and...