Stories to encourage and inspire… from the all encompassing heart of a mother
It’s one of my favorite lines in a movie, maybe ever. It’s a statement made by a donkey, voiced by Eddie Murphy, in the animated 2001 fairy tale, Shrek. For those of you who may have been living under a rock for the last 17 years, it’s about an ogre, with a Mike Myers…
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At the end of the day… or week… or decade… the reality of a rich, full life results, sometimes, in feeling a little poorer. Grief over losing someone dear calls into question everything we allow into our lives — like a balance sheet of pros and cons or a record of wins and losses. Sadness,…
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For some reason, I always excelled at parallel parking. Why, I am not sure. I grew up on a farm where we pulled our cars across the barnyard to get in or out of the driveway. I lived in a small town where the number of spots around the town square probably equaled the number…
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A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post stating that I was going to take a little break from writing — needing to step back to see exactly what it was that I needed to step up to do. I had started this blog after taking an impromptu trip to LA to attend…
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I can’t even…. I hear these words often from fellow mothers when looking at pictures of their children that pop up on Facebook’s time hop. Like, “I can’t even deal with how cute she was” or “I can’t even believe how much he has grown”. So when unpacking a box of Christmas things from years…
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A couple of months ago, I was headed to Denver to participate in my third women’s empowerment conference, called Emerging Women Live, and this year I needed a photo of myself. While I had flexed my event management muscles as a part of the volunteer staff the prior two years, this year was going to…
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“Men don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses.” I don’t know who said that the first time and why it stuck but if that was the case, every woman I know would wear glasses, ALL THE TIME, to simply have a say-so about their bodies. Because a say-so doesn’t just mean “no”,…
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Last night I attended a hot-air balloon festival with my 10 year old daughter and some friends. It was a beautiful, balmy early-September-in-Indiana evening. You could say it was perfect. We had taken camp chairs and our cameras (my daughter is a budding photographer) and set up a spot near the end of the field…
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“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander”. This phrase has been going through my head a great deal recently as there are two small lakes in front of my home. Filled. With Geese. Their migrational pattern has landed them, literally, in my front yard and I have begun watching them, intently, because…
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