This morning I spent a bit of time responding via email to a mom of a toddler who had been home from Ethiopia for several months and who was wearing her momma out with her whining and clinging. The mom feels that the child is attaching, because she makes good eye contact and seeks...
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The winner of the $100 Visa card from Juicy Juice is Rebecca S. Rebecca, you will be contacted and should get your prize soon!
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Recently I was sent a couple jars of salad dressing to try out. The brand is SisMeliss, a new company in Lo Angeles. The dressings & marinades are made with extra virgin olive oil, and are no sugar, low sodium, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. The flavors we tried were Classic Caesar Salad and Garlic...
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Call me crazy but what if we learn To love our brother for nothing in return? Oh how the rules would change Reaching out to the ones who need help Treating them as you first would treat yourself Now that would be insane It may just be crazy enough To work if we could...
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(Apologies to anyone sick of pantry pictures– not sure how it became a yearly theme here, but I realize some of you may be over it.) ~~~ Last fall when I shared my pantry pictures, an alarmed reader warned me that my shelving needed shoring up to avert a possible disaster. John and I...
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Last week due to travel I only ran twice. I am determined for that to be a fluke, not a habit. So determined, in fact, that this evening I ran in the rain. In rain, people. This is big. For me, anyhow. In the past, I’ve used a 2% increase in humidity as a...
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Most conferences speakers are asked months ahead of time. I am sure that was the case for most of the very excellent speakers I heard at Together for Adoption. But the talk that most touched my heart was given by a substitute, asked two days before when someone else got sick. Substitute he was. ...
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I’ve got a couple of more recap posts from T4A– wow, such an awesome weekend. I want to tell you the story of Pharaoh’s daughter and the basket in the river. (Point to ponder: ya think she just HAPPENED to go to the river to bathe when she knew her daddy was killing boy...
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Check out the giveaway over here!
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Esther Havens is a photographer who works in various countries around the world, doing story-telling photography for non-profit organizations. She began her career as a photojournalist, complete with the standard belief that photographers are not supposed to get involved in the lives of the people they are photographing. The first time she traveled to...
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