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Rest: Why You (Yes, You) Need It!

I would love to hear about your process in realizing you need to “step back” and care for yourself. What happened to cause that? What has changed in the way you go about doing things? Those lines are...

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Month of Misery: The Aftermath

Well, I made it! I know some of you were worried that I might not survive my four-week challenge in my air-conditioned, middle class gated community home, with a refrigerator full of groceries and the...

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Progressive Tree Decorating

Image Via   Christmastime, for my family, has always been filled with delightful traditions. My parents were very intentional about it. Almost the entire month of December my sisters and I had...

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The Christmas Eve Box

For the past few years my family has adopted a new tradition we call The Christmas Eve Box. This is really fun because I grew up getting together with all my extended family on Christmas Eve and now...

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Nuestro Celebracion del Pesebre: Our Bethlehem Party

Image via Every December when I was a little girl my mother and I began THE QUEST. The quest for the perfect Nativity set. The nativity scene had a couple of stipulations: our Mary had to look young,...

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Keeping the Cards

When On the Willows invited contributors to write about a favorite holiday tradition, I signed up immediately. Then I stared at the wall for several weeks. Our family is still a little new to this...

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Consider the Orchid

Somehow, I have failed to kill the orchid. The orchid in question is the first I’ve ever owned. It was bestowed upon me this past July as a hostess gift from a visiting friend. This friend — unlike me...

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When It’s Time to Get Help

Image Via They say a perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. I don’t know if “perfect” is really what we’re going for, but surviving and thriving are good...

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Forty Is the New . . . Whatever Makes You Feel Better

Photo Via.   I write to you from the throws of my last week in my thirties. I always knew the day would come, and I confess I have been in no hurry to get here. I could feel it hovering in the...

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Shameless

It was just a few months ago that I read an article that sent me absolutely spinning. Got me more inflamed emotionally than I’d been over anything in a long time. I mean, I’m opinionated, and I can...

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