>Is parenting stressing you out? If you’re sashaying along just fine with only a few bumps and bruises, then I convey my congratulations to you and suggest that you stretch your arms out and give yourself a much deserved pat on the back. If you are like most parents, you’ve experienced bouts of parental lassitude…

> After picking my son up from school yesterday, I routinely checked his folder.  There was a note from the school nurse.  During school he complained of a sore throat and had a temperature reading of 99.3.  The nurse’s instructions were, “please keep student home tomorrow.” So, as I sit here Wednesday morning realizing that…

> Right now I can appreciate an invigorating yoga inhale and   exhale…    The holidays are over!!  While I thoroughly enjoy the traditions and festivities of the holiday season, I can honestly say that I’m glad that the season of hustle and bustle has ended. The post holiday pace is refreshing.  Almost everything and everyone…

> Parenting has to be the toughest job on the planet. Every time I get cocky and think I have this parenting role down pat, I’m thrown a curve ball. Geez! How many times in frustration or anger have you told your kid that if they did, you fill in the blank, one more time,…

> With less than ten shopping days until Christmas, I feel like I’ve steered off the road to the joyous and gleeful holiday season, to a roadside ditch. I feel like I might need a tow truck to get me back on the road. I particularly enjoy the holidays because I am blessed to spend…

>After six shadow at 8:30 in the morning.  Fly away chocolate curls.  Scrunched and wrinkled shirt appearing as if just removed from the bottom of a week old laundry basket. Tucked in neatly; disguised as a crisp, cleaned and freshly starched shirt. Familiar scent of old garbage that has lost its smell. Un-stylishly loose fitting…