Love
Virgo and the Circus
I’m not a big follower of Astrological signs. I mean, I read my horoscope from time to time, but I’ve never put much stock into them. Until I started paying attention to my Hubbs’ Virgo personality: Tidy. Sensitive. Analytical. Logical. Grounded. Keeps feelings inside. Respectful. Dependable, predictable and loyal. And mine (Gemini): Independent. Easily bored. [...]
Live & give
Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much love your God, show me how much you love all His children. Before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion [...]
Action & insight
So, in January of our oldest son’s Senior year, I started assembling a scrapbook of his photos for the family Graduation party. I scurried around, finding pictures here and there, and, in my usual analytical style, laid out a spreadsheet of important trips and milestones to catalog. Painstakingly, night after night, I worked on it [...]
on Need
Consider this the next time someone you know (child, in-law, spouse, etc.) acts out, acts up, pouts, snorts, stomps or whines: Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I most need it. –Swedish Proverb
ABCs – easy as 1-2-3
Both Jeanette at A View from the Middle and Dianna at These Days of Mine presented me with a new blog award, the ABC (Awesome Blog Content) award recently. Thank you ladies; I am honored that you feel my blog has awesome content! When accepting the ABC award , the recipient is supposed to list [...]
on Acceptance
Growing up, I hated my curls. H-a-t-e-d them. They were temperamental, difficult and unruly. My feelings about my hair were compounded by the fact that I had two sisters with bone-straight blond hair. And then there was me. Tumble-haired, curly, wild and unyielding, my hair refused to be tamed. I spent most of my time [...]
As true as mine
There’s a song I love, from a little movie that warms me, sung by a Texas Country Boy named George Strait. George is clean cut, mannerly, and married to his high-school sweetheart. A country music legend, he possesses a kind of self-assurance and ruggedness that fails to threaten most men; the same charisma makes many [...]
50%
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.” ~Sophia Loren. Date Night’s here again! I’ve written often on the significance of date night and how they affect what’s in my relationship basket. Next month, Hubbs and I celebrate 20 years of marriage. We’ve had our ups and [...]
On detours
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown I’m deviating from my path by taking tomorrow off. I’ll get all my weekend “to-dos” done in the wee hours of the morning but mostly, mostly I want a day without conference calls, meetings and a lot of [...]
What I would tell her
What I would tell her, that curly haired teenager .. is that love, real love, doesn’t exist anywhere in the vicinity of hometown boys with pickup trucks. What I would tell her, that determined college girl … is that love, real love, is rarely found after 2:00 a.m. What I would tell her, that young [...]
