Christmas Podcast Episode #2

I couldn't help taking a picture of this pioneer spice rack when I was visiting a festival over Memorial Day.  Isn't it beautiful? I noticed how earthy and sturdy things looked in the pioneer canopies that were set up to show old world skills.   I saw things made...

Want to take the quality of your marriage up a few notches?  Want to have a stand-out, "wow-they-look-happy" relationship? Listen up! This advice comes after 31 years of marriage, and I am staggered with gratitude to say that it is a great marriage!  That must mean...

This month's seminar step is lighten your physical load and reap the benefits of lightening your spiritual, mental and emotional load as well! What areas of your space need to be lightened up? What triggers you every time you walk in the door? What spaces are "stuck"...

Plutarch (46-120 A.D.) wrote, "Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." So how are you faring with the challenge of shifting your mental...

It's simple and inexpensive.  You can get it at Walmart! And, oh, the sleep is lovely and sound. I have been a light sleeper through my adult life and have struggled to stay asleep.  I learned about Valerian root and it has been a Godsend. Read up on this lovely...

You know the old saying, "No success can compensate for failure in the home?"  That admonition has given me pause on many, many occasions, and kept me going back time and again to embracing my role as a wife and mother and community leader over and over again. Taken...

  It's risky business being human isn't it? And working on making real and lasting connections with others can be tricky and a bit worrisome! Do you find that you're going about your life, doing pretty well and then all of a sudden you find that you need help...

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." Henry David Thoreau

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." Thomas Henry Huxley  

Our thoughts fly!  They fly so fast we can't comprehend it! And those thoughts create pathways.  Neural pathways that then become conditioned responses.  In other words, if you have the same response over and over, pretty soon, you don't even think about how to...