A word about trying new things. I walked tonight. I listened to Brene Brown’s first podcast, “Brene on FFTs”. Her podcast is “Unlocking Us”. She recorded while isolating during pandemic, in a closet, sitting on her son’s dirty gym clothes. She talked about trying things for the first time....
Trying New Things
Reading Aloud
I’ve been studying reading aloud to children. I’m speaking of reading great books to children … great books above their reading level. WHY READ ALOUD? Children need to be read to on a regular basis. From a wide variety of...
Honoring This One
Honoring this one. My spunky mama, Sarah Killen. At the end of WWII, she boarded a ship for Europe to assist an army general as a US civil servant. Because of the war, she had been away from my dad for 3 1/2 years while he was serving in...
Look at Fear
Inspiration. Thinking about fear. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look fear in the...
Everything Shifts
When you replace, “WHY is this happening to me?” with “WHAT is this trying to teach me?”, everything shifts.
Super Read! Strong Mothers, Strong Sons
Strong Mothers, Strong Sons – Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men by Meg Meeker, M.D. Super book! Here are a few snippets: “As mothers…our job is to help our sons seek knowledge and truth…. We must challenge them to differentiate good from evil and right from wrong. We...