A heart-warming painting by creative mother-daughter duo of a young girl surfing. A dynamic, moody, playful expression of a young girl’s daydreams. Title: Young Girl Surfing Artists: Heidi Jakal (American Painter, b. 1918) and Caris…
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That time when you’re already experiencing the pain of one death and then you get a phone call with more bad news. Here’s to figuring out how to move past life’s lows. I…
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Real love is more than romance, flowers, and candy hearts. How to appreciate being single–even on Valentine’s Day–because being single is not a disability! It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often,…
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Love isn’t an endangered resource. Trust me. If you want some you’ll have to dole it out until you’re almost running on empty. The only way to get is to open up the levies and give. Valentine’s Day.…
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JoAnna suffers the realities of raising a new dog. Was it a mistake or will unconditional love prevail? The joys of training, learning, & forgiving. Having a new dog is somewhat similar to having a child,…
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Two and a half years ago, almost to the day, my husband and I packed all our belongings into boxes, distributed all our good furniture (code for stuff not bought in Ikea) amongst unwilling…
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Home [aka. Manilla, Philippines] is approximately 2800 kilometers away and I am missing it badly. There are lots of things I’m homesick for, my family…
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The girls and I have started a new, uncharted adventure. Instead of being part of the rushed mornings, uniforms, packed lunches, drop-offs and pick-ups, we are learning at home. I really mean ‘we’ because…
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My youngest daughter Callie turned one last month. Needless to say, time passes unbelievably fast when you have two kids. It feels like she was just a newborn only a couple of months ago. I…
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. ~ The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder I…