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Celebrating An Anniversary

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Next week, it will be 10 years since I was married in the temple to my amazing husband. I can’t believe it has been that long. Yet, in the eternal scheme of things, it is just a moment. In preparation for our anniversary, we were trying to decide what to do. We had a hard time figuring out something special that we could do with three small children, and limited time. We needed someone to watch the kids, and we wanted something fun to do. We decided we are going to go to a local reservoir and rent wave-runners. I’m … Continue reading →

Katie Holmes Files for Divorce – Part 1

I enjoyed a great lunch with my family today and when I got in the car to return to work, I checked CNN as I often do. I was shocked to see the headline “Katie Holmes Files for Divorce from Tom Cruise,” then I was shocked at the fact that I was shocked. It’s not like we haven’t been through this before. Cruise married his first wife, actress Mimi Rogers, in May 1987. I think Rogers was the one who introduced Cruise to Scientology…unfortunately. Sorry, I am, just not a fan of Scientology. Those two divorced in February 1990. Cruise … Continue reading →

The Importance of Preserving Precious Memories

This month marks the 10th anniversary of my grandfather’s death. He was an incredible man who made a huge difference in our family’s life. Fortunately, he was a collector and an even more enthusiastic photographer. He actually ran his own professional photo studio for a while before getting into real estate. He didn’t live long enough to meet his great-grandchildren, but his memory lives on in the scrapbooks my mom and I have made over the years. However, without all of the photos he took and the ones that were snapped of him, we could never have crafted the memory … Continue reading →

Happy Anniversary…Oh Wait!

Bittersweet…I’m not sure I can think of any other word that better describes the way that I am feeling right now. Today would have been and my ex husband’s and my wedding anniversary. A part of me wants to reminisce about how things should have been. A part of me is wondering where we would be and what we’d be doing had things worked out the way they were supposed to. Yet, there is a bigger part of me that is realizing now, more than ever, that I am exactly where I should be. Thinking about our last anniversary reminds … Continue reading →

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The end of daylight savings. Best. Day. Ever! As a parent of a 7-year-old, falling back an hour to standard time is the most wonderful time of the year. Forget about Mother’s Day, Christmas, birthday, anniversary, Valentine’s Day or Thanksgiving, when else is the gift of time presented to you on a silver platter? A glorious extra hour to sleep, play, read, wash dishes, fold laundry, sew, attempt to procreate, or do nothing at all, is something you can’t put a price tag on. Think about it; all the complaining we parents do about time flying, how there is never … Continue reading →

Take That Time

The secret to a long and happy marriage according to a local couple, Betty and Ernest, who recently celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary is, ’it’s not easy. Particularly during those years of child rearing,’ Betty said. That’s the reality. Although children are a great blessing and I wouldn’t be without either of mine for one moment, they can put extra pressure on a marriage. This may be even more noticeable if children are close together in age. They will take up a lot of time. Sometimes it means one or the other or both of the couple are busy doing … Continue reading →

Happy Christmas and New Year to All Mental Health Readers (2)

In my last article, I decided that rather than writing about mental illness in general, I would write about the personal experience of the recent death of my mother. I have written many articles on dealing with grief and you can find links to them at the end of this article. As in the first article in this latest series, I have decided to write about my own feelings on the death of a parent and how I coped and am still coping with this major milestone in my life. Losing a parent can be difficult, and the degree of … Continue reading →

Happy Bookday

Monday for me was what an online friend and fellow author described as ‘happy bookday.’ It was the day my novel Streets on a Map was published. While it will be available in bookshops, it is also going to be available from my website. Since I am nobody’s idea of a computer literate person, once again I had to rely on that darling husband of mine. Not just to help me celebrate although there was some of that, but to carry in the boxes of books that are now stored in my study. Then he went in and set up … Continue reading →

Remedies When Love is Fading

So you’ve discovered your love for your spouse is fading, what can you do about it? Here are some suggestions. Remember Remember where you started. When I lose sunglasses, keys or something, which is fairly common with me, I retrace my steps. It is no different with marriage. If you have lost your love for your spouse or are just having trouble remembering why you fell in love with them in the first place, go back to the beginning. Make a list of the reasons why you fell in love with them. Share that list with your spouse. Work on … Continue reading →

Anniversary

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Those of you with double-digit years of marriage will hardly find it amazing but my wife and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary this past week (leather). Its amazing to both of us that 3 short years ago we ventured 1000 miles away from family and started our lives together in Texas. We are summer people, it seems. My wife’s birthday and our anniversary are in June. My birthday is in July, and our son’s due date is in August. We have reason to celebrate all summer long. Our little family is just beginning but there is already so much love. … Continue reading →