The morning started like most Sunday mornings…coffee and family time. My wife and I sat at a coffee shop planning an upcoming family trip. It was a slow morning after a busy week of travel. Then, we headed back home to talk through the trip with our daughters. I was bringing up a map on […]
Original article at https://foreverymom.com/society/holidays/5-simple-ways-to-make-this-holiday-season-the-best-your-family-has-ever-had/ It’s that time of year again and let’s be real, for many of us, the holidays are scary as we know that our expectations will be dashed with chaos, frustration and more of what we do not need: busyness. So what if instead of being bogged down by crazy schedules, stress, and materialistic […]
Words by McKenna Neville at https://www.goodgritmag.com/blog/are-you-making-the-world-better1 For some people, change doesn’t take much—a word spoken by a friend over lunch, a book quote you just can’t shake, or a small act of kindness from a stranger. But for others, it takes a trip around the world. That’s what it took for Chris Marlow, founder of […]
It’s that time of the year again… the cold air moves in, the leaves start to diminish, and all things Christmas dominate our lives. If we can fight all the noise and clutter, the shopping, the extra parties and the pressure to perform, we remember the subtle beauty of Christmas — a life-changing gift to […]
Today is Buy Nothing Day. Which is an annual grassroots movement to fight the shame of consumerism that grips our country. The news of a Walmart employee that was trampled to death as crazed shoppers rushed the store for some killer once-in-a-year deals. How sad that a human life ended over something so silly! Who’s to blame […]