TweetI just read an inspiring article from the New York Times about nursing homes. Now I’ve been to plenty of nursing homes, church-going Southern girl that I am.  I went to church services and played the piano, and played the piano and sang just to cheer people up, and I visited my family when they [...]

TweetAge is mostly important when you’re quite young or quite old.  Obviously, if someone is under the legal age of consent, there is a problem.  And of course problems come up when an older man (or woman) dates or marries a partner who is the same age as their children.  Barring these two situations, there’s [...]

TweetI found this book incredibly interesting and I read it constantly until the end. What was so interesting? The author is from Canada, the characters were well developed, and it is a story about conjoined twins (yes, siamese twins, but the proper term is conjoined twins). Of course, since Lori is not a twin, much [...]

It all makes me realize that my baby’s getting older (and therefore, so am I).

TweetDue to constant traveling, I have been homeschooling my son for the last few months. We have gone through different stages where he enjoyed it or didn’t, and I’ve had a few struggles getting him to listen and to actually like doing work, especially math. My son is seven years old and officially in first [...]

TweetThis is one of those rare perfect books that I will want to keep forever to loan out to friends in need of enlightenment or encouragement. It has everything: a good storyline; characters that are real, complex and that you would want to meet in real life; it’s funny; it talks about the Northwest US [...]

TweetI recently tried to cancel my Myspace account, because it is causing “personal drama”. It’s an incredibly difficult process these days. You have to confirm twice that you want to cancel, and write why. Then, you have to receive an e-mail and click on a link in that to confirm once more that you really [...]

TweetI subscribe to a lot of newsletters, but my favorite is the “Funny Columns” from self-described “writer Melvin Durai, who was born in India, raised in Zambia and brainwashed in America”. He apparently now lives in Canada (go Canada!), and most of his columns have a sarcastic political message, often about the ever-increasing lack of [...]

TweetThis is a thought-provoking book about how our diet affects our daily life from emotional, physical and spiritual perspectives. I found a lot of myself in Annemarie. She was Dutch but lived in South America for most of her childhood and adolescence. Then she moved to America. She was married to a middle eastern man [...]

TweetAre you thankful for something? Or maybe you have a special wish, hope, prayer. Maybe you’re remembering a lost loved one. Maybe you just need a moment to meditate and think about the blessings you have in your life. I am not a religious person, but I find comfort in spirituality. If you wish, take [...]