For as long as I can remember, I have gone down to the Gulf Coast of Texas in August. It was an easy drive, only about an hour, from Victoria where I was raised. Usually we went to Rockport; we would have a picnic on… Read More
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All posts tagged “mindfulness”
Happy Father’s Day to Real Men
One day when our son was young and after we had celebrated Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Grandparents’ Day earlier in the year, he piped up and asked, “When do we have a Kids’ Day?” It was a good question, one that had no… Read More
Reunited
My 60th high school reunion was this month down in Victoria where I grew up. It was held at the recently-renovated Club Westerner, a favorite dance hall for generations, where we as teens went for live music and two-stepping almost every weekend throughout the year—… Read More
No Kings! No Kidding!
Citizen protests, some quiet and peaceful and some not so much, have a long history in this country beginning in the 18th century. As you may remember from school days, the Stamp Act Rebellion (1765), the Boston Tea Party (1773), and the effective boycott of… Read More
Wait!
I have been screaming “Wait!” for almost as many years as I have known my husband. I tell him that one day I will have WAIT engraved on his tombstone (and I will mean it). He is a died-in-the-wool New Yorker, who walks fast, talks fast,… Read More
Ash Wednesday
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust… Ashes in the form of a cross on the forehead identifies penitential believers and marks the beginning of the forty day period of prayer, fasting, and sacrifice Catholics and other Christian denominations know as Lent. The ashes are a… Read More
A New Year in “Nots”
I have a t-shirt that reads, “Sorry I’m late, but I didn’t want to come.” Every time I wear this shirt out in public, I get two or three people who come up to me with some version of, “OMG. Your shirt. That’s my… Read More
It’s About Time…
(Photo Credit: Jon Tyson) Time: in good time, big time, time-out, just in time, terrible time, waste of time, the time is now, pastime, no time, too much time, take the time, buy some time, time and time again, timing is everything… … Read More
Gratitude
So, here we are at Thanksgiving, a time when everyone is supposed to count their blessings around the dinner table. The attitude of the season is gratitude and, in truth, while the search for reasons to give thanks might be difficult when times are tough,… Read More
That Time of Year
It’s what I have come to call “That time of year” again — the late fall days in November between holidays when daylight savings time ends and the twinkle of Christmas lights begin to illuminate the darkness. The year is winding down, the New Year… Read More
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