Edited: Posting another blog post I wrote years ago that sat as a draft on my website. I am trying to achieve my goal of writing several...

Update Note : I wrote this post over a year ago and never published it. Just reread it and it is still pertains today, if not more so. My...

Over ten years ago, my dad fell, setting a whole set of domino type events in motion over the next few years. Selling their house, moving...

At the start of this new century my beloved father wrote a book. It was something I had wanted to do since I was12 and my sixth grade...

I always love the promise of a new year. A fresh start. This morning we started "school" for both my son and I. He decided to forgo the...

How would you like to endure chemotherapy every three weeks......for five years (and counting)?! How about MRI's three months for 10...

What a week we are having! We have been thinking about renovating the kitchen since we moved in 16 years ago. Started the process,...

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Last night my friend Karen came over for dinner and a Halloween movie. We watched Practical Magic, an old favorite of her son Dalton. I...

Perfectionism. In the past, (like only a few months ago) I would research, tweak, and make sure everything was perfectly perfect before I...

After years of raising children, taking care of elderly parents and renovating and decorating houses and running a photography business I...