• 5 Minute Friday - Like

    5 Minute Friday – Like

    As I was sitting in church on this first Sunday of advent, it hit me that this may be the last Christmas my children and I are all living under the same roof.…

  • 5 Minute Friday Laugh

    5 Minute Friday – Laugh

    Whenever I am asked what my favorite things are or for what I am grateful, one thing has remained consistent: my children’s laughter. There I go again talking about my kids. LOL But…

  • Five Minute Friday Extreme

    5 Minute Friday – Extreme

    When I first saw the word extreme, several extreme things came to mind – politics (it’s right after midterms), temperatures, tempers. None of those were things about which I wanted to write. I…

  • Five Minute Friday Perform

    5 Minute Friday – Perform

    Performing is not something I do. In fact, the thought of being on stage and/or behind a mic scares me. I truly admire those who develop the skill, or have the talent, for…

  • 2018 in 2018 – March Update

      It’s time for an update on my progress to eliminate 2,018 items from my house this year – hence the title 2018 in 2018! It can be done! I was able to…

  • Fifty Weeks – Week One

      Well, Week 1 is behind me… What I did involves a website, a family business. And it made me think about how I wanted to handle links and other people’s businesses. So…

  • 2017 in 2017

    I keep this tab open in my browser. I click on it every once in a while and promise to come back to write. I even have several post ideas bouncing around in…

  • Clutter Free

    I think I have always lived with clutter; I’ve never been accused of being a neat-freak! Actually, I’ve always described it as an organized mess and most of the time I could still…

  • I Am A Rebel

    I am divorced. And although I am the one who filed the paperwork, it wasn’t my choice. And, I know this goes against popular thinking, but I was an abused wife who didn’t…