As a mom, life sometimes seems to be running in autopilot. Most of our time is usually spent “multi-tasking”, problem-solving and “putting out fires.” Slowing down, embracing life and and living in the moment seem like lofty goals more suitable for single, high-achieving with amassed wealth. However, when you live consciously, motherhood is a place …
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I say it all the time: I am a word-nerd and I love it. I was not at all surprised to look up the etymological meaning of mother and find that it is ‘breast-feeder’ (the English word mother and Latin mater and many similar maternal words contain the worldwide etymon ma ‘breast’ + ter an Indo-European agent suffix). Breastfeeding my baby girls were the most amazing …
You probably didn’t know that April 30th to May 6 is National TV-Turnoff Week. I’m serious…really! I don’t subscribe to cable TV or miss it the least bit. We get DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs at the library FOR FREE and we watch them happily together. Sometimes I rent a romantic comedy and treat myself after …
I grew up loving and devouring books. I loved self-help, marketing, business, Spanish literature, and, the Bible. I read anything my mom or dad would bring home and anything I found in the trash. I remember the first time I was actually given a book. My own book. I was 13 years old and highly …
My journey started at a young age. My first near-death experience happened at 3 months old, followed by events that some would define hard, tragic, and even unfair. My take on it is a bit different. I could focus on “what happened to me” or “how I overcame it”. I could go on for hours. …
Heather Von St James is a 43 year old Positive Mom to Lily, her only child. A busy salon owner, with a full clientele, Heather was married for 7 years before her and her lovely husband decided to take the leap on parenting. I am featuring Heather as a positive mom because of her incredible …
I love Hellen Keller’s words.They touch me deeply. They give me peace. They make me smile.They are such a treat: “Anyone who, out of the goodness of his heart, speaks a helpful word, gives a cheering smile, or smooths over a rough place in another’s path knows that the delight he feels is so intimately …
No man has “Woman Abuser” written on his forehead. It’s almost the opposite way: the abuser is charming, paints a perfect picture, and ALWAYS makes sure everyone else knows how generous, loving, and supportive he is to “his woman.” As women, and mothers, it is our responsibility to become conscious, careful, and tactful not to …
Honesty is, unarguably, my highest value. Deception comes in many flavors: white lie, compulsive lie, saying half the truth, hiding the truth, twisting the truth, exaggerating the truth, denying the obvious. All these taste like pain to me! I read that the average person tells 4 lies a day or 1460 a year; a total …
One night, I was driving home from an exhausting and stressful day of hard but rewarding work. You know how sometimes you just drive and can’t think of anything but “I gotta get to my destination”. I usually play audiobooks on my car’s MP3 player, but I wasn’t even in the mood for that. The …