I love children’s picture books. I love that words and art work together to create a setting for sharing and exploring a story. I love the challenge of the author to write something thoughtful in 500-1000 words – usually 32 pages. Even more inspiring is a book that has no words – that leaves the…
Just a month ago, I visited Caesar’s Head State Park in South Carolina. Today this region holds thousands of lives that have been disrupted, destroyed, forever altered. Sometimes silence is better than words.
In August, I joined a local Toastmasters Club, fulfilling a dream that I have carried for almost thirty years. On Wednesday, I delivered my first “Icebreaker” speech to the club. Want to read what planned to say… check it out here. This past summer, I made a list of all the local places that I…
How much have grown this year? How do you know? When the kids were young we had a big poster that had a tree where we could mark their growth. (I wonder where that went…) On birthdays and other occasions we would mark their height and compare their growth to their past markings and their…
It’s been a busy start to the summer in our family. Our youngest was home for a month, and last week returned to the northeast to work at a summer camp in Vermont. Our middle is getting ready to go visit our oldest in TX next week. And our oldest is making plans to move…
We bought a basil plant at the grocery store last week. I can’t remember what recipe A. was going to make for dinner, but the fresh basil leaves – as they always do – played a big role in the dish tasting wonderful and the house being filled with an aroma that made my stomach…