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Have you seen this yet? I’m constantly working on keeping a calm voice, a firm stance yet loving tone. It’s tough especially when multitasking and managing three kids that demand your attention. But it’s worth it to try. If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to [...]

Have you ever thought you were witnessing the beginning of something big? I feel this now. My friend Laura Roppe is living her dream and this week that dream took another step forward! I remember meeting Laura a few years ago when we all huddled around a couch and listened to her speak of finishing a [...]

I was going to write about guilt today because I snapped at Bree. She was taking a loooooong time to put on her seat belt and I became impatient. This post was supposed to be about how guilt is a useless emotion. How we all make mistakes and we shouldn’t get caught up in the [...]

How often do you sit in silence? How often do you give eye contact? How often do you sit in silence and make eye contact? Lance posted Shhh…at his blog The Jungle of Life yesterday. He discussed silence and how it important it is to have in our life.  Silence gives us the opportunity to [...]

Shilpan of Success Soul recently wrote a great post compiling some ways to supercharge your brain. This sparked some debate at the notion that hugging a stranger would help your brain.  He was called a “Tree-Hugging Hippie” for this radical idea that touch can be helpful for our well being. Well Shilpan, you were right [...]

Currently this is my special place. Now that it is summer and Gabby-Girl is going to camp I’ve had to adjust my schedule a little. I now have to get up a little earlier to get the kids off to camp/daycare. I could wait till the last minute, get everybody off and then come sliding [...]

Isn’t it interesting what things we are afraid of? I find the more time I have on my hands the more I succumb to my fears. Before I went to medical school I thought I had it tough. But once I was immersed in the day to day stress of critical illness- shoot- It made [...]

After 8 years of marriage my husband and I did the unthinkable. The unimaginable. We took a week off. Together. At the same time. And put the kids in their regularly scheduled programs. We learned to dive. We held hands and shared air and a kiss under water. We went to breakfast. Twice. We saw [...]

Leaf Van Boven, an assistant psychology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who has studied the topic of happiness and well-being, says that if you really want to be happier you need to stop buying more stuff and start doing more. “An orientation toward life experiences tends to make people happier than an [...]

I’ve been thinking about friendships a lot lately. Summer is almost here and my fellow Navy families here in Guam are moving in droves! Every time we turn around someone is hugging and crying. When you’re with the military and are uprooted on average every three years it’s easy to feel disconnected. The way you [...]