Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category
Living Happier Starting Today by Kevin Horsley and Louis Fourie (Book Excerpt)
July 31st, 2020
CHAPTER 2 HAPPINESS IS... THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAW IN SEARCHING for happiness ‘out there’ lies in confusing pleasure for happiness. This basic misperception leads to the belief that happiness is either a once-in-a-lifetime-delight, or the compound effect of many, more, or bigger ‘pleasurables’. There is, of course, a place for pleasure. In fact, pleasurable ...
5 Ways to Encourage Creativity in Your Kids During the Summer
July 21st, 2020
Kids love to create things, which is why they’re always using their imagination to invent new games or stories. But, getting them to focus on a specific craft or art skill is a way to further develop their creativity and help improve motor skills as they learn how to master ...
College Planning in the Time of COVID – A Top 10 List by Brett Levine
July 20th, 2020
An article “A Year of Chaos and Flexibility,” featured July 2oth on InsideHigherEd.com, paints an uncertain picture for colleges trying to recruit, admit, and enroll students. Like colleges that have to wrestle with so many unanswered questions, so do High School students. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers as High School ...
Mindfulness: Free the Past and the Future by Sez Kristiansen, author, Inspired Mama (Book Excerpt)
July 13th, 2020
My son started daycare as soon as I took up work again. I felt our connection slip away, so I decided to make “Mama and Mathias time” once a week. Sometimes it was just a morning, while other times it was a whole day; I devoted time to just being ...
Interview with Claire Gill, founder National Menopause Foundation, by Robin Gorman Newman, founder, MotherhoodLater.com
July 8th, 2020
Can you clarify the distinction between perimenopause, menopause and post menopause? Natural menopause occurs gradually over several years and has three phases: Perimenopause. Perimenopause usually begins several years before menopause as the ovaries start to produce less estrogen. This phase lasts up until menopause when the ovaries stop releasing eggs. A ...
How to Deal With Post-Divorce Depression
July 6th, 2020
Getting through a divorce is one of the hardest things a person can face. Moving on after sharing a life together and having certain expectations of that relationship can be both a letdown and challenge. This is not only because of the emotional attachment but also financial aspects, going through ...
It was huge… it was gross… it was a centipede by Pamela Francis
July 4th, 2020
The little pair of boxer briefs sat in a damp corner of the tub. "Yuck," I thought. What would I find? A nighttime accident...? A Virgil's vanilla cream soda spill...? Or maybe not. Maybe they had simply been hanging over the wall of the bathtub one day, had gotten too ...
“Feathers of Fire–The Movie,” Shadow Theater On Film, A Review by Andrea Santo Felcone
June 27th, 2020
Perhaps you have already streamed everything on your movie ‘wish-list’ and are finding drive-in movie tickets hard to come by? (As they sell out at lightning speed.) This scramble for entertainment will most likely be a common thread this summer, but there is some good news. There are talented companies ...
But They Are Such Cute Little Narcissists……by Kristen Howerton, author, Rage Against The Minivan (Book Excerpt)
June 23rd, 2020
They’re awful people. They’re tiny, tiny little Hitlers, all of them......Donald Glover If I had to sum up motherhood in one philosophical statement it would be this: They come out of the womb as narcissists, and you have eighteen years to try to change that. If, by the time they move out ...
Navigating Adoption Later in Life – Meet Later Mom Melissa Couch Salim, founder, Baby Buzz Adoption Advisory & Head, Houston Chapter of MotherhoodLater.com: Interview by Robin Gorman Newman, founder, MotherhoodLater.com
June 22nd, 2020
Robin: What led you to adopt? Melissa: My road to adoption was a long and winding one with many speed bumps, hills and unexpected pot holes. But I stayed the course as somehow, I knew in my heart adoption was for me. What I didn’t realize is that by the time ...
