It’s not your grandmother’s house anymore. When my husband asked me to marry him, my answer was not a simple yes or no. It was, “Yes, if you promise not to make me a housewife.” I was not joking. I am not a housewife. I hate when society tells me I have to do certainContinue reading “Do Not Allow Nostalgia To Control Your Happiness at Home”
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Do You Miss Being a Kid?
Facebook Fodder I wonder how many of us really miss being a kid. If we look at what it is that we really miss and compare it to our daily lives, maybe it isn’t being a kid that we miss. Sure, for most of us childhood was a mixture of fun and worry. I hadContinue reading “Do You Miss Being a Kid?”
The Art of Story Telling
Story telling is not just limited to books and movies. Stories infiltrate our life in thousands of ways. Often we are either the story teller or the story receiver and we do not realize that we are engaged in the act of storytelling. Kids are expert story tellers, so are Grandparents when they share familyContinue reading “The Art of Story Telling”
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 itContinue reading “Adults Can Pretend Too”
Lori O'Gara 