When I got married, my grandmother gave me a wooden rolling pin that had been a shower gift to her when she got married in 1921. It had been well used as my grandmother was a wonderful cook who made wonderful pies. She taught my mother how to cook and my mother taught me. I…
These Times Are Serious
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity. True, but I didn’t write that. Ralph Waldo Emerson did more than 150 years ago. In the mid 19th century, they had their hands full with the Crimean war, assassinations, a cholera epidemic and Charles Darwin rattling people’s world with the theory of evolution. If…
The secret to less stress in your holiday shopping
The countdown to Christmas is on and we are all looking for the perfect gift. Holiday shopping creates a lot of stress as we try to meet expectations and still be a frugal Santa. Turns out the whole gift giving thing is not quite as holly jolly as we might hope it would be –…
What you are forgetting this September
September is all about going back to school. Everywhere you turn the focus is on getting kids organized and set up for a new year of learning. Even if your children are all grown-up, there is something about September that stirs up the memories of our own back to school experiences. I remember my mother…
What wild geese can teach you about success
You can hear them long before you can see them. Honk honk honk. You never exactly know when it will happen. Some years it is early in the fall. Other years the snow has already fallen. But guaranteed one day or another flocks of Canada Geese make their way overhead. I always stop when I…
Mindfulness Moment – enough
At this time of year when we are busy with our holiday shopping, it’s good to pause and remember what we already have.
Fifty shades of greyness
I’m having a fifty shades of grey kind of a day. Wait…not that kind of fifty shades of grey. It’s been raining for six days at the beach house which means that everything is monochromatic. The sky is grey, the water is grey, even the trees have taken on a grey tone. Just one big…
Mindfulness moment – just breathe
What ever is happening, just breathe.
The lost art of doing nothing
I’ve been noticing lately that people don’t do nothing anymore. There is no free time. I don’t mean that our schedules are overbooked, although that is definitely true. I mean that there are no longer idle moments in our day. Whether it’s standing in a line, sitting at the bus stop, or waiting for your…
