International Women’s Day – Small Town Style

It’s been several days since I’ve been able to get back to this blog – I’ve been busy with a number of things, mostly involving trying to get the garden ready for the season, which I haven’t nearly finished doing.  This past week – Thursday – was International Women’s Day, and I never did a [...]

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Speaking of Love

Today’s blog entry begins with a riddle:  what is the one thing you can receive much more of in your life by giving much more of it away?  The answer is love.   
Love gets talked about mostly in the romantic sense, and of course this is very important, but it’s only one form of love.  [...]

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About Judgments

 
I called my husband outside to look at the moon one morning.  We get up very early anyway, so he immediately came out to look at it with me.  The magnificent full moon was clear.  It seemed close as it hung above the tree line.  I took in the splendor of that moon, a photographer’s [...]

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On Parenthood: Surviving the Teen Years

A recent opinion article which appeared in my local town paper got me to thinking about the roles of parents and guardians in the last stages of parenthood: the teenage years. 
Many people approach parenthood with a lot of trepidation.  Protecting kids from all the nasties out there – the child predators, the traffic, the germs, [...]

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