"Lead with your heart,
and don’t let fear get in the way."
Wendy Pitts Reeves
Are We Facing the End of the Family As We Know It?
Have you been worried about the State of the American Family?
It’s not that unusual these days to hear one pundit or another decry the end of...
Why Being a Good Girl Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: Part Two
So, are you always a Good Girl?
Tired of that yet?
Being a good girl, year after year, decade after decade, will very likely land you at your...
Why Being a Good Girl Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: Part One
Maybe you know this girl.
Just for the heck of it, let’s call her “Laura”.
Today, she’s 53, and the oldest of 4 children,...
29 Ways to be a (Really Tired but) Very Good Girl
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a Good Girl.
Here’s a few things that seem to fit, based partly on my own...
Courage in Action: Big Lessons, BIG Growth
I told her she’d be a different person at supper that night.
Of course, she looked at me like I was crazy.
But then, I knew something she...
Courage in Action: Little Lessons, Big Growth
“Now, where does this pole go?”
“Do I put the stakes in BEFORE I stick the poles in those little sleeve things or...
Whoops. Did I miss a turn somewhere?
Have you ever been lost?
I have – so many times it’s not funny. Well actually, it IS funny.
Sometimes very funny.
Like...
There’s a Cricket in My Skillet, and Other Joys of Camping
No, I’m not into eating weird things. :)
Just found the little guy when I pulled out a skillet to cook a little breakfast over the weekend....
Put your lips to the world…
The other day I told you I was heading out to do a little exploring, in anticipation of our June 21 Not-So-Secret Adventure Weekend....