Making Room
Parenting and Health Inspiration: Raising unhealthy children
Confessions from a soccer mom. I’m a soccer mom with a health confession to make. Sometimes I choose to work out when I could be rushing between key cheering locations at a cross country race or jumping up in triumph…
Life Change: Saying Goodbye to Lake Oaks Drive.
I had a milestone Life Change this week: I had to say goodbye Lake Oaks Drive. It was thirty years ago. I was eleven, almost twelve. We were moving across town to what I considered the mecca, a newly built…
Are you Hector the Collector?
From Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Hector the Collector collected bits of string, collected dolls with broken heads and rusty bells that would not ring. Pieces out of picture puzzles, bent-up nails and ice cream sticks Twists of…
I got mad at my Best Friend’s Boyfriend!
I love my Best Friend, my sister from another mother. But since we are not related, it’s like playing catch over a canyon with your heart. It’s easy to feel afraid when things become difficult. I admit I was harboring…
Clear Your Mind! The Rest will Follow.
MAKING ROOM sounds like a physical undertaking. Overflowing drawers, closet doors that won’t close, last week’s McDonald’s wrappers stuffed in the pockets in the car all come to mind. That’s what I was thinking when I began 30 Days of…
Me and My Old TV
I didn’t get rid of it! I had someone who was willing to COME to my house and PAY me to take away a largish grey box of wires and glass and plastic. Just moving it was a problem and…
