What's this world coming to....

My kids have the unfortunate habit to remember they've forgotten something when we're already halfway to school. 'Mommy, my pants keep slipping down!' or 'Today we have to take a Spanish speaking alien to school, that's wearing yellow pants and a bright green sweater. And he should't be any taller than thirty centimeters, my teacher...

'I'm in a hurry to get things done, I rush and rush until life's no one. All I gotta do is live and die, but I'm in a hurry and don't know why.' This song keeps playing in my head. Because I feel rushed all the time. And just like Alabama 'I don't know why'....

Country life can be quite idyllic. The silence, the views, nature.... However,  there's one thing I definitely don't appreciate about life in the country, and that's flies. Pesky flies who take up residence on my bare legs, while I'm trying to read a book. Or while I'm having my daily cup of coffee. Because during...

My sixteen year old son was getting ready for school and his presentation about Addiction and Environmental issues. So I wished him good luck, and started to climb the mountain that is our laundry. I forgot my opinions! Like the seven dwarfs, I like to sing while working. But just as I was trying to...

While I have to do all the boring gardening stuff, like pickings weeds, my husband does the vegetable garden. Growing vegetables gets him even more excited than a Star Trek episode! It's still kind of cold outside, but he couldn't wait to start sowing his seeds. So he created his own little hothouse, using some...

  'Into each life some rain must fall,' sung Ella Fitzgerald. And indeed, there's no way around it: there will be times in your life when the going gets tough and you must weather stormy times. The best thing to do, I've learned is to just lean in. Don't fight it. That's the best way...