Tag Archives: Relationships

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...

I’ve always been more of an inside kind of girl. Well, not totally inside. I love riding quads (on trails where I won’t get too dirty) and I love hikes (as long as it doesn&rsqu...

Many years ago, when I was a young mom, a friend announced that she was going to a "Hostess Class". I thought it was the silliest thing I'd ever heard. Being a hostess was easy, wasn't it? You invite ...

Just this week, a notification came across my Facebook feed. It reminded me that my husband and I have been friends (according to social media) for four years now. Now if I’m going t...

“Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise — the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, fo...