The birth of a child is the most miraculous event to ever take place. I cannot imagine anything more meaningful, symbolic, painful yet magical. The miracle of life.
I always celebrate my children’s birthdays as the days I became a mother. Like Mother’s Day, it’s nice to have established dates to commemorate special experiences and create family traditions around them.
Right before Christmastime, my girls were learning about Jane Goodall and talking about their love for animals.
Elyssa, my youngest, kept asking questions about where meat, eggs and milk came from. My honest yet careful answers still disturbed her. Many say “I don’t eat anything with a face”; my daughter’s vowed to ” never eat anything that has a …
Throughout my life, I’ve seen, heard and read numerous stories about characters obsessing about a “Fountain Of Youth”. Plastic surgery, hair dye, botox, and special creams are advertised everywhere online and offline to rejuvenate you, take years off your face, neck, hands, you name it…and don’t get me started on “prevention techniques”.
There are ways we can maintain a youthful …
I once believed conflict to be an evil that must be avoided at all cost. Some of my misconceptions may be familiar to you:
This is …
