Alas, we have embarked on the holidays. First, Halloween with all its sweet treats and empty calories, before us is Thanksgiving with its rich, calorie-laden delights, and then for the triple whammy, weeks of Christmas celebrations complete with cookies. What can we do to prevent ourselves from gaining unhealthy extra weight? Improving the quality of…
Author: Grandma Grace
Toward Adulting
I’ve been thinking lately about our life stories. This week two of Husband’s childhood friends came to visit. As they discussed their growing up years, the wife mentioned the difficult childhood she had. Her alcoholic parents spent only one day a week with her, leaving her the other days in the care of people not…
Phone Photography Plus Halloween Photo Tips
It’s Halloween and it usually falls to the moms and grandmas to take photos of our cute lil’ creatures all decked out for fun. But it can be tricky. No pun intended. Here are some helpful tips for taking great Halloween phone photos. (Since I’m ‘that’ generation that struggles with technology, I decided to do…
The Path of Peace
“I married a monster.” I was shocked and saddened to hear an acquaintance thus describe her marriage. I love to hear people’s stories! I mean stories of their lives, more than just an anecdote or two. But yesterday after that life story, I couldn’t shake the sadness. Listening was painful, and my mind couldn’t let…
Nourish
We all make hundreds of decisions every day. Some of those decisions are about how we spend the next ten minutes. We can use those minutes constructively or wile them away in mindless entertainment. What are we actively doing today to nourish spirit, mind, emotions, and body? What am I doing to nourish my spirit?…
Day of the Dead
The past six weeks have grieved all of us as one catastrophe followed another. Such devastation and loss of life from hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, and a mass shooting! But did you know that we Americans celebrate a holiday which may be commemorating an ancient worldwide catastrophe? I’m intrigued by the theory that “Day of the…