Finding Your True Colors

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Understanding Your Abilities and Aligning Them With Purpose. Oprah said, “Life is a big ol’ canvas. And, you have every combination of colors to paint with.” If I had been asked the same, I couldn’t have said it more perfectly. Over the years, I have spent quite a lot of time studying human psychology...

A Year in Review

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Looking Back Well, it’s January. I honestly cannot believe it. This time of the year always makes me think about things that I did not get to in the previous year. There is, of course, all the improvements both to oneself and one’s home that always seem to get pushed back until right now,...

Changes are Coming

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Change is not always good. There’s change coming….and I have to tell you I am not happy at all about it. In fact, I’m a little scared. Scared more for my children really than myself, and it is a kind of fear that is gnawing at me. It all started a few weeks ago...

Reflections On Marriage

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Reflections on the Sanctimonious Institution of Marriage About….no, exactly twenty years ago, Brian and I were in front of approximately 800 people, promised to each other and our families and our Lord to honor and cherish one another until death parted us. I was only twenty and he was barely twenty-one. Thinking back on...

Focus on Making a Little LOVE

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AHHH, Valentine’s day! I can still remember making the real homemade valentines for friends at school. Cutting out paper dollies and gluing them to construction paper hearts…adding in a little sparkle here… a little rhinestone there. Being an artist sometimes has it’s advantages. I purposefully try to engage my children in artistic projects that...

Focus on 2008

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Its January… again. I know, I know already what ya’ll are thinking. Oh boy, time flies and what are the “plans” for this next year. January, like no other month, always pressures me to make promises to myself and others that by September I realize should have never been made in the first place...

Focus on Writing

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Wrapping Up the First Year Well, I know it’s hard to believe, I can barely believe it myself… I have had my column for a year! I have been amazed at the response the magazine has had and in general the support from those friends and family living in the area. Many a week...

Focus on Giving

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Giving Children the Gift of Giving The art of becoming a giving person and living life graciously are not easy tasks to cultivate amongst our children. Being a thankful person and learning to give have to be two of the more difficult virtues we as parents are asked to teach our little ones. This...

Hope and Inspiration

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The How of Winning or Losing We all know the saying…”It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game”; and that well, is no more appropriate than when fighting with a diagnosis of breast cancer. Many of you are aware of my work from the past several years with mothers...

Letters of Support to Those Who Serve

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Patriotism. What does that mean to you? For many it is a simple word heard all through childhood. Some think patriotism is going through the motions of a celebration for “Independence” is all a part of being “an American”. What comes to mind is marshmallow salad with coconut and of course the watermelon!!!! Others...

Father’s Day

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Reflect on The Fathers In Your Life Ok, first of all let me say Thanks to our readers! As I go about my daily life in Sugar Land I am often stopped by friends that are reading my column. I have been excited to learn how many of you look forward to this each...

Focus on the magic of Mothering

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May 2007 What exactly does it mean to be a mother? As young girls we are told you will grow up someday and become one, but it is a loaded statement to assume every women becomes a mother. Quite to the contrary I think many women find themselves looking down at their new little...

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