What a wonderful year for me this year.  I am so happy that I had the opportunity to spend Christmas with my folks for the first time in years.  Usually I have been so busy, or the weather has been bad, but for a change, someone was smiling on me and I am sitting [...]

I think that one New Year’s resolution we should all make is to judge people less in 2010. Even if you are a fairly non-judgmental person, you probably make more judgments than you ought to. It seems to be human nature to do this.
Try to track your judgments on others for an entire day. Common [...]

I was surprised this morning when my mom told me that Senator Ted Kennedy had died.  I checked the headlines, and sure enough, there it was.
Since the initial announcement, a lot of articles have questioned the fate of health care reform now that Kennedy is no longer with us.  I knew it was an important [...]

I was standing next to my best friend looking for clothing, when she picked up a maternity skirt   from the maternity clothes section at the department store we were in. She told me soon she’d need to buy things like these. I do not think that what she said really registered in my mind for [...]

One of my favorite things about spending time with kids is the chance to get to see imagination in action on a daily basis. Kids are creative in almost everything that they do.
Remember back when you were a child and you would play games with your friends? You would take whatever was at hand and [...]