Category: Encouragement

Fitbit Crazy

How are you doing on your New Year’s Resolutions? Yeah, like many people, I resolved to be healthier in the new year. A friend of mine received some sobering news from her doctor in December indicating that she …

100th post, $100 gift card giveaway!

100 seems like a special number. We celebrate 100th birthdays and anniversaries and days of school, so why not 100 blog posts? 100 posts might not seem like a big deal to many people, but to me, it …

A Dad Who Didn’t Have to Be

Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday, and like Mother’s Day, it is a holiday fraught with emotion.  I am sure some will be happily celebrating and remembering while others feel pain, resentment, anger, embarrassment, regret or a …

Mother’s Day: A Few More Thoughts (part 2)

On Friday, I posted some thoughts about the pain and joy of the Mother’s Day holiday, and it got me thinking about motherhood and its daily ups and downs. In that earlier post I referred to the opening …

Mother’s Day: A Few Thoughts, part 1

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” The opening lines of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens come to mind when I think about Mother’s Day coming up this Sunday. For …