Shine Your Light

I love twinkle lights.  It’s really one of my favorite parts of the holidays.  It’s fitting that during the darkest days of the year we have so many brilliant lights shining all around us. Something struck me this year about holiday lights.  I grew up in Ohio and went...

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...

Who wastes your time?

Today I was out for a run and I passed a young woman wearing a t-shirt that said in big neon block letters on a black background: “Don’t Waste My Time.”  I smiled at her as I ran by and kept thinking about her shirt.  There was something about it,...