A week ago my town was a different place. There wasn’t a limit on purchasing toilet paper, beef or chicken. Lines didn’t form outside grocery stores before they were even opened. The Corona Virus is having a global impact. It’s easy to become panicked. If we take a step back it’s even easier to pause…
Happiness. It’s an over used term that can seem foreign or even unattainable. Some believe money or things will create happiness only to come to find out it doesn’t. Others maintain that happiness is a state of mind they are undeserving. How happiness happens is a process, consists of certain ingredients and is a mindset…
One way ticket in hand going around the world with my husband and three year old. We both left our secure, well paying jobs to check off the biggest ‘to do’ on our bucket list: take a trip around the world. We are now six months in and we are currently in Dubai. Sunny, unbelievably…
It’s easy to get into a state of mind on the way to work or the store where the people around you become invisible. It is rarely done with intent. Life can consume us. Responsibility and the tug of what is and what is to come can be daunting. Our eyes slowly focus on our…
Over the years I’ve had many parents ask, “how do I raise a child to have compassion for others?” Possessing one of the founding bricks of strong character, compassion, is not attained on a whim. Some are born with compassionate hearts, while most are born innately selfish; that’s just the reality of it. As parents and…