I love working with clay! I find this art form to be very relaxing and rewarding. Starting with a chunk of mud and pinching, rolling, forming the malleable material into your eye’s vision is just the first step. Once fired and bisqued, you then work with the color and glazes, bringing even more life to …
Enjoy this story told through pictures – I am one proud momma! Two years post graduation, Robert is living and working in Los Angeles. I couldn’t be more proud of the incredible man my son has become. Transparency of Medication Prices
Sometimes our upstairs feels like a dorm. With six kids sharing (albeit on a variety of differing schedules) three bedrooms it can be a bit chaotic. When we first moved in together, my husband and I had a lot of discussion on how we were going to arrange the sleeping quarters of the four girls. …
Some mornings are harder to get going than others. Like this morning – a Monday morning with a big, fat head cold – ugggh! When mornings get tough, and my energy is ebbing, I crank up the music. Below are songs that get my energy levels up, get a spring back into my step, and …
There is a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt that says you should do one thing every day that scares you. Well, I don’t subscribe to the thought that we need to do something that scares usevery day – but once in a while, it’s a good thing. It is good to be nudged out of our comfort …
I am a huge goal setter, but life is not always about achieving an objective. Most of our days are about doing, about actions, about creating experiences. It is my day-to-day interactions that bring me joy. Every day I try to create a beautiful life. I do this for myself and for those around me. …
I am a huge goal setter. I always have been. In high school (many years ago) I wrote in my journal a list of activities I wanted to do/achieve in my lifetime. Essentially, I wrote a bucket list at age fifteen – long before I had ever heard the term bucket list. I am someone …
I saw this list the other day, and I was struck by the wisdom it presented. I like statements to be phrased in the positive as opposed to the negative. Call it all my teacher training, but usually when you tell someone what not to do – it is the first thing on their mind …
Yesterday was a busy day! Amidst all of the regular business of the weekend – playing catch up with everything that gets postponed during the week – I was busy helping my stepdaughter pack for science camp. She is one excited and nervous sixth grader! She loves the outdoors. Like most children, she can very …
Years ago I put together a vision board. That was the year Oprah was proclaiming the power of visualizing your aspirations. Like all of you I had my dreams and goals; wishes and plans. So I scoured the house for a perfect “something” to start my board with. I didn’t want to put it off …
