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I have just finished reading The Paper Bag Christmas. With each chapter, my heart swelled up until it finally burst open and I lay sobbing in my bed. A Christmas miracle had jumped from the pages into my heart. I sensed my true essence. I wanted to bottle it up for safe keeping. I wanted to…
A review of Touch Type Read and Spell, a multi-sensory program that not only teaches touch typing but also teaches phonics and spelling rules in a way that children love. (appropriate for children with dyslexia and other learning challenges.)
This anniversary morning came and we took no notice. The iphone reminded us: three years ago today, I dropped him off at Cedar Sinai hospital in Beverly Hills, California, where a surgeon would remove all 5 feet of his large intestine. Life without a colon is not something you can imagine or prepare for. Forget…
It’s the end of the day and tonight, unlike so many other nights, I am not deep to the bone tired. Tonight, I feel great. I’m sitting on my lanai sipping a glass of wine. A gentle breeze sways the sheer white curtains my husband helped me install yesterday. The Christmas lights we hang year-long…
At 8.30 pm on Wednesday, we said goodbye to yet another neighbor. The Johnsons had lived at the end of our private lane, two houses down from us for just over 5 years now. They moved in with one tiny tot and moved out with two: a first grader girl and a toddler boy. (Their…
Life is good!
Imagine how thinking and saying those words might impact your life. How you might act differently, carry yourself, interact with your world and the people in it. How you might feel…
Today is 02/10/2018 and I predict that stress will kill me one day. The worst kind of death possible. A terrible agony that will have started long before my final breath. I’ll be 42 in a month and I have been stressed ever since I can remember. There is a photo of me as a…
I went from one tropic (Capricorn) to another (Cancer). I moved from the French state of La Reunion to the American state of Hawaii. Once an island girl, always an island girl. A new generation is now following in my footsteps.
Last week was my birthday. I turned 42. Here is a list of 42 things I’ve learned so far (in no particular order). 1: Do not buy whipped cream or dark chocolate chips in bulk size at Costco. 2: There are more good people than bad ones. 3: Nagging is pointless. 4: Life’s weird so…
Next week is one of celebration. I’m turning 42 and my blog will be two years old. Two years of faithful writing. Two years of publishing an essay a week. Two years of sitting down in front of the screen, equipped with a keyboard and the willingness to give a voice to the bouncing thoughts…