every day living with a touch of creativity
Pin itWe all know we should be eating better. Gone are the days of eating 100-calorie pack Ding-Dongs and thinking we are eating a good diet. We will live better if we eat better. I think we instinctively know that, and if we don’t know it instinctively–the media’s blatant messages ought to be getting to [...]
Pin itThanksgiving. How do appropriately give thanks in a year where your newest baby (the one that rounds out a trio of boys) gets scary sick and then is slowly healed? How do you appropriately do that when you look on with joy while that same newest baby sits and giggles with his brothers? I’m [...]
Pin itMy grandmother is a creative force. She taught inner city middle school art for years, and now my boys get to benefit from her magic. She has collected so many old art and craft supplies over the years. After she and my grandfather moved recently, I was the proud and lucky recipient of all [...]
Pin itI love searching Pinterest for wardrobe inspiration, but what comes next? Most of the outfits cost more than a vacation, so how do you get the look? Well, I go to relatively inexpensive online shops for the look for less. And here, you can get two looks out of just one shirt and some [...]
Pin itGift from the Sea It requires a particular bravery to be a woman. There is much love, much heartache…swelling and yielding to the rhythm of life. The most exquisite lives are borne out by women who have endured and prevailed, because they have fortitude and a story to tell. Unfortunately, in our throw away [...]
Pin itOne month ago, my youngest son was born four weeks prematurely. Even though he was early, he did just as he should right after birth. No problems stemmed from prematurity, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. We snuggled him, we lunched with our parents to celebrate, and we sent him to the [...]
Pin it I am a list maker by nature. I love all kinds of lists. I have piles (which are really sort of abstractly lists in themselves, aren’t they?) of lists. The bookmark folder on my MacBook betrays me, showing my tendency to hoard digital information. I wonder if I share the same fear of [...]
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