Are You A POB?

It’s Veterans Day here in the States, and to be honest until very recently I hadn’t thought much about what that meant.  It wasn’t until seeing my son’s 2nd grade assembly yesterday in celebration of all that Veterans and soldiers who are...

Sorry, We’re Open…

While traveling in Oregon last spring we came across a coffee shop that had this neon sign lit in the window.  And yes, it was during business hours. My husband and I thought it was amusing and took a photo.  Then it hit me: many folks in business are giving exactly...

Out of the mouths of babes…

I was sitting with my kids at the PCC the other night eating dinner and a woman walked by with her baby on her hip.  My youngest (Anja, 3yo) said:  “Look Mama, she has a baby!  She has a baby with her…isn’t the baby cute?”  To which my son (Eli, 7yo) chimed in: “She...

Freedom Fighter

Last night, Dewey Bozella, a man wrongly accused of murder some 30 years ago won the Arthur Ashe award on the ESPY’s.  While I didn’t see his acceptance speech, my husband shared it with me-and I just watched the video about him and his life (see it here...