Two minutes is a lot of time
I can do a lot of things in two minutes. I know this because when I have something heating up in the microwave oven I always try to use that time wisely. I can...
Category: Joy
Rubric for a successful day
Wow, there is a lot of stuff on my to-do list today. (Who am I kidding, there’s always a lot of stuff on my to-do list. Life is hard!) Some of my tasks are...
Motherhood is my favorite
Being a parent of more than one child is such a blessing. It is wondrous to see how people created using the same recipe can be so different from one another–which may be my...
The joy of leaving things unfinished
I am a voracious reader. Always have been. There was a big swath of time in my childhood and early adolescence where the answer to “where’s Janet?” inevitably was “in her room reading.” The...
Have we gotten TOO casual?
I am old enough to remember dressing up for air travel. Not dainty hats and white gloves dressing up, but still suits or dresses and nice shoes. And paper menus for the meal choices!...
Make new friends
I made two new friends last week, in the Chicago airport. I don’t mean that we just chatted for a few minutes–I mean that we actually exchanged contact information and even have texted with...
Fix It Yourself!
I recently was visiting my good friend Sara at her Florida beach house. (And let me interrupt myself here to note how important it is to have friends with Florida beach houses, or Colorado...
The Wild Wild Midwest
There is a golf course near my home. It has beautiful rolling hills, ponds with fish and frogs, and lovely landscaping. If I get up early enough in the morning, and it’s not too...
Sometimes it is not your fault
I believe in taking responsibility for your mistakes. And boy, I have made plenty of mistakes! Sometimes it’s pretty obvious that it was my fault (um, I forgot to plug in the crock pot...
Happy birthday to everyone!
I am terrible at remembering birthdays. I like to say that unless I am married to you or you came out of my body, I’m not going to remember your birthday. But even that...