Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

The five year old, shrugging into his new favorite garment,  a black suit jacket that he wears with everything – jeans, shorts, jerseys, what have you – casually tosses out, as he walks to the door: Grandma, do I look like the President of the United States now? Yes,  my goofy grandson.  Indeed, you do.

A rare quiet moment here, thank the goddes. To make a change from the regular cold or flu that’s been hanging around all winter, a little stomach bug walked in the house with one of my grandchildren last week, when they returned from a few days spent at their dad’s house, and it’s jumped from [...]

I type too slow. But it’s not entirely my fault. It usually goes something like this: News breaks! I am full of outrage (or the even more furious poutrage) and sit down at my computer to start to send my displeasure clattering away through the intertubes, I’m really into a groove, just getting ready to [...]

My little experiment of writing something every-single-day, even if it’s complete nonsense, is working out nicely. Granted, it’s only been 15 days but already I can see the effects. Not so much in my writing as in my willingness to actually sit down at the keyboard, write something and click “publish”. I have a before [...]

… was the 4 year old’s plaintive reply, when asked why he was standing so quietly and intently close to the tree – after I had explained (quite imperfectly, it would appear) about the tree’s “bark”.

Said the 4 year old, upon disembarking into a completely different place after his first cognizant ride in an elevator. Sometimes kids make up for all their other annoyances just with wonder.