So, Steve challenged me to track my Weight Watcher points faithfully for six weeks. Two weeks ago, I started and when I weighed in last Monday, I has lost over three pounds. I was SO HAPPY. This past week, I tracked as well. I used less points in the early part of the week, so …
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I have known about the Sidetracked Home Executives since about 1993 or 94, when my husband was in graduate school and my daughter was very young. I heard them on Focus on the Family and they spoke to me. Anyway, I have been “in the box” off and on for years. I spent a lot …
Recently, I had the good fortune to reconnect with two of my cousins on my father’s side through a group on Facebook for people with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD). This is the disease that is on my father’s side of the family and which is the reason I had my transplant ten years ago. I …
My daughter recently got an internship with a big NYC literary agency. It is exactly the internship and the kind of job she wants and she is thrilled. Busy, stressed, but thrilled. It’s all “virtual” in that she still lives in her apartment near the LSU campus and is taking classes, but she works two …
I’m a writer. Sure, it’s been seven years since I had anything published, but I have one novel out looking for a place to live (publisher), and I’m currently writing another one. There are half a dozen more in my head. When my first book came out years ago, my mother was proud but also …
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I think God is really trying to get my attention, possibly because I haven’t been paying attention before! Well, I feel like this is happening a lot lately and I’ve started looking around to see what He’s trying to get me to change. Because, ultimately, He wouldn’t be …
Parents know there are some milestones your child will go through. You might not expect that sometimes they feel like walking through a door that slams shut behind you and you can never go back. First words. First steps. Start of school. Those are things we expect and sometimes look forward to. They’re signs that …
Our second day in Nashville started a little slow. We went to the Belle Mead Plantation which is a working farm and an antebellum southern plantation. It was okay, but I’ve done plantations before and I get confused over all the names and dates. I guess I’m not a history nerd. The good thing about …
About a month ago or so, my sister-in-law sent me a message on Facebook wondering if I would be interested in the two of us (JUST the two of us) meeting somewhere about halfway between Akron, OH (where she lives) and Baton Rouge, LA (where I live) and spending just a few days doing touristy …