Last month, I mentioned that I wanted to go on more adult field trips. My friend Elizabeth wrote a few months ago about friends who came to visit the area where her husband and she now live in Arizona. The friends had basically planned some places to visit while they were in the area. The… Continue reading Adult Field Trip- Third Ward Neighborhood Milwaukee, Wisconsin
I was looking through all the images on my phone last week while in the waiting room of my headache doctor, and I noticed my face smiling to all of the pictures in front of me. I've decided to share them with you all. I hope these can make you smile as well. Buddy and… Continue reading What’s Made Me Smile This Month- December 2021
"Exercise 9: Free writing a memory. Choose a moment you don't remember well and free write about it in the present tense. Any memory fragment will do. Here are a few memory sparkers if you don't have one in mind: your earliest memory, an embarrassing moment, an experience that took your breath away, your first… Continue reading Tapestry
In the book Write a Poem, Save a Life, the author had a section discussing synesthesia, which we are familiar with. Ella has often requested to be included on the blog and the podcast, so I interviewed her earlier this summer. When my youngest daughter was in first grade, she was singing a song one… Continue reading Thinking in a New Way
As I get older, I find that some of our favorite family members are individuals who aren't even related to begin with. I mean, we have relatives we love, but my children have called some of my friends "auntie" and "uncle" for years, yet none of those people have blood running through their veins that… Continue reading Some of our Favorite Members Aren’t Family To Begin With
July was full of Universal things, bizarre happenings, and stuff I honestly can't explain. If you had told me that my bird would go missing and one of the cast members of The Breakfast Club would email me, I would have yelled, YOU ARE SHITTING ME. In the middle of July, I purchased this book… Continue reading Thirty-One Universal Things
A Grace Full Life 