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When our son, Justin, was four he decided he needed a gun to shoot rats. I had no idea where he came up with this idea. “We don’t have rats,” I reasoned, “and you don’t need a gun. I’ll buy you a water pistol.” “No! I need a gun to shoot the rats,” he insisted….
I just had a reading from a clairvoyant. I usually do this twice a year to chat with my mom in Heaven. She’s doing well. She was full of excitement this reading. There was so much she wanted to say that she was talking like I do after two cups of coffee. First she told…
When my daughter told me she was using cabbage leaves to dry up her breast milk, I thought post partum had struck and she’d lost her mind. We were in the produce department when she felt up six cabbage heads, looking for the largest leaves. She carefully placed them in the cart. “How do you…
Moms, if you are ready to tie your own tubes with a string from the pork roast, please read this article. There are many things about being a parent that I learned twenty years too late. When you’re in the trenches of motherhood, you do your absolute best to raise the little darling. You know…
I seem to be on an eight week cycle of what I used to call a meltdown. I replaced that term with crumbled. I’m not a fan of hot flashes, much less meltdowns. A wise friend coined it “Crumbling.” This week another crumble moment arrived. I now call it my Crumble-Fest. Usually…
I’ll confess right off the bat that I do not have a vision board. I do however, have a bunch of pieces of paper I’ve ripped out of magazines with the intention of sticking them on one…..some day. This is how I roll. There are romantic beach photos with a fit couple strolling in the…
I have a tidy little place in my mind that I call Anz World . I don’t call it Anne’s World, because it is so different from my real world. When life gets too busy and stressful, I simply take a few minutes and retreat to Anz World. A few deep breaths with my…
I’d been running on empty for a while. It seemed like stress arrived gift wrapped for me daily. I had gotten to a breaking point when I went on a retreat with some friends. We each got a massage. When it was my turn, I rested to the soft music and my shoulders started…
I was singing the theme song of Lion King, The Circle of Life, when it occurred to me. There are so many parallels between being born and old age. As babies we come in to the earth with pain. Moms labor for hours to birth us. At the end of life, there is often…
My mom had a favorite story that seemed to fit every occasion. She reminisced about a time her co-worker’s only son played baseball. Georgie was ten years-old. He was not athletic and usually struck out, but this one glorious Saturday morning day, Georgie sailed the ball clear into the outfield. It was a miracle! The…
“A Hula Hoop as a healthy mind tool?” I asked. At Toastmasters last week during Table Topics, the question was asked, “What is the best advice you ever received?” Table Topics is designed to teach us how to answer a question, off the cuff, calmly. We give a one to two minute response and eventually…
When I am old, I will eat cheesecake for breakfast with a fruit topping and cover it with whipped cream, extra creamy of course. When I am old, I will not match my bra and panties. I may not wear a bra, honestly. Who will check? When I am old, I will play with my…