It’s been so long since I logged into Shout, I forgot my password!!
This place feels like the arms of an old friend you haven’t seen in far too long, but whose embrace erases all the bubbles in time and you’re exactly where you left off. I miss it here in the land of blog and [...]

As deeply as I fell in love with blogging, I seem to have suddenly fallen out of love with it.
Eventually the pull to meander through multiple ideas, stories and the issues I care about will bring me back to this space, but for now I’m simply not enjoying the clicking and hopping required to be [...]

If I didn’t have to focus on making a living, this is what I’d do with my life. Georgia doesn’t have a Child Help facility and I’d LOVE to be the person who creates one here.
What is your altruistic dream? Would you feed the poor? Save the planet? Reform education? Cure cancer? Stop domestic abuse? [...]

It’s 2:47 in the afternoon on day five of my commitment for 30 posts in 30 days, and I’m sitting here thinking about what an insane commitment this was, and I’m wondering why I like self torture.
So rather than anything even resembling a cohesive thought, I’m going to take the liberty to ramble on for [...]

You know how some people look like their dogs? My face is too round to resemble the long snout of a German Shepherd, but my husband and I have decided we act like our dogs. Or, they act like we do….I’m not really sure if it’s nurture or nature.
Meet Max and Ellie, our 2-year-old canine [...]

My youngest stepdaughter graduates from college today. This morning’s ceremony and the afternoon’s celebration are a tribute to the achievements of a child now turned woman. She’s grown and succeeded, matured and failed, faltered and galloped while often surprising herself. She’s fantastic.
Like most rites of passage in a child’s life, this moment is not only [...]

What was I thinking when I committed to 30 posts in 30 days? I’m quite certain I may have momentarily lost my mind, but a commitment is a commitment and I’m barreling down the runway ready to pull up the landing gear August 1st.
You can help me reach the goal. Is there something I’ve previously [...]

I’d like to report that I’ve spent the last 24 days unplugged from the land of blog so that I could dedicate time to a fitness regime, to my family and that I even got to throw in a few days of vacation. That would be a big fat lie.
In addition to losing my mind [...]

The growing baby hardly made a bump under the simple fabric of her wedding dress. It was the obligatory yellow sash tied around her waist that told her story and her fall from grace.
The 15-year-old girl from a nice Catholic family and her 18-year-old handsome knight didn’t need the help of a shotgun to declare [...]

I’m posting for the  Beautiful Like Me project, hosted by WickedStepMom, this is a bi-weekly post dedicated to raising awareness about the lack of self-esteem and poor body image in today’s youth. If you’d like to join in, please do. Simply leave a link to your post here or on the main project page.
For this [...]