Tag Archives: Relationships

When it comes to our most basic needs we think: Food, Water, Shelter. But, when you think about our emotions we can drill it down to love and belonging. We are hard wired to love, be loved and belong....

Parents, we live in a world where countless children are starting to view pornography in their preadolescent years.* And it isn't safe to assume our children won't somehow fall into that category...

As a mother of four, I’ve not endured the death of a child. I haven’t known the gnawing emptiness of losing a daughter or a son. Yet for the last seven years I’ve had the ho...

We send Christmas cards every year. I love mailing them out and getting updates from other families in return. Each year our card is accompanied by a brief little synopsis of our family's annual highl...

My daughter is playing with bottles of paint. Except she’s not painting with them. The pink one is Elsa, the purple one is Anna, and they are shimmying down the leg of the dining room table to r...

It doesn't pair well with visions of sugar plums, candy canes and stockings. But the holidays can be a time of sadness, of loss, of depression for many people. The traditions and...

It is heart-breaking to picture a child on Christmas without a present under the tree from mom or dad. When a mom or dad are in prison the crime’s innocent victims are often forgotten. We can ch...

I started wearing make-up early in life. At first, I had to wear it for the ballet performances I was in.  My ballet teacher lived and breathed dance, and because she had been a prima ...

Not too many years ago it seemed like I was going to a wedding every other weekend. I recall a coworker commenting how now I was in the “wedding season” of life, and soon enough I would fi...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.And expensive.And complicated.And busy. And, for me, as the CEO of a large tribe with an even larger extended tribe scattered across a 1,000 m...