Tag: Childhood

• Adults Can Pretend Too

  or How to retain your childhood imagination. See this girl? Yeah, that one in the picture. She is my alter ego. Her name is Charlotte. She is tough and innocent, soft and fearless. She is everything I am not in real life. To me, to my imagination she is real. Do you remember what it […]

  Brendan & Lori O’Gara

  November 24, 2018

  Indie Author

  Childhood, Creativity, Culture, Gaming, Life Lessons

• A Step Mother’s Manifesto

  This is in part a public promise to my family and a soapbox stand for anyone who wants the right to love your spouse’s children. Why is it that the stepmother is portrayed as the evil one in the fairy tale? That is often the furthest from the truth of reality. Most stepmothers want only […]

  Brendan & Lori O’Gara

  October 31, 2018

  Lifestyle

  Childhood, Family, Life Lessons, Parenting, Unconditional Love

• Life is about Cupcakes

  and cookies. How did you spend your weekend? Did you go out and party? I spent Friday night baking cupcakes. I love to bake. I am not an expert at all. My cakes and pies often come out looking ugly. Cookies always come out perfect. I have a talent for chocolate chip and peanut better […]

  Brendan & Lori O’Gara

  September 15, 2018

  Lifestyle

  Birthday Party, Childhood, Food, Parenting, Sweet

• Let’s Go Back

  Let’s go back about twenty, thirty, forty, years. Let’s go back to the days of porch swing talks where the adults are smoking real paper cigarettes and flipping ashes out the sand. Where the kids are sitting on the ice cream churn cranking the handle…round and round and round. My grandparents had a big back […]

  Brendan & Lori O’Gara

  September 10, 2018

  Lifestyle

  Childhood, Nostalgia, Priorities, Simple Living, Southern