When Suck it Up Buttercup Isn’t the Answer
I consumed large amounts of water in the days leading up to our recent skip trip to Crested Butte, Colorado, but alas, I still found myself with an extreme case of altitude sickness. Please don’t hear that as I got a tad queasy. This wasn’t that. This was an evil experience. As I said to my beloved once I could speak again, “Are you saying
Are You Self-Soothing?
My kids had them. My grandkids have them. I'm talking about their "lovies". The textbook sounded definition of a lovie would be any object, often a stuffed animal or blanket, that a wee one forms an emotional attachment to in order to feel safe and comfort themselves. This practice is known as self-soothing. Horses, giraffes, doggies, and rabbits, the lovies of my kids and now my
Living Hand to Mouth on the Words of God
I was just a child the first time I heard it said that a good woman could throw more out the back door than a good man could bring in through the front. For the life of me, I couldn't imagine why the man's wife wanted to throw all of their stuff in the back yard. Years later I realized that the front door/back door