Inspiration

This week I met gratitude face to face. In the middle of a chaotic week, I learned I had more to offer when I had nothing to give. Like most women, I am constantly juggling my time to accomplish as much as possible in a 24 hour day. I make to do lists, trying to squeeze in [...]

As a single Mom of two boys, I find it easier to relay messages to my sons, or anyone else, when giving examples. Recently, while speaking to my teen, I brought up the subject of unicycles and bicycles. The unicycle and bicycle are pedal-driven vehicles powered by human effort. A unicycle has one wheel. It has [...]

As a child, I lived in a world of dieters. The women in my life were constantly trying new "fad" diets to lose another five more pounds. They ate and complained. Said they took a bite and gained. It was an endless cycle of love and hate, with themselves and the bodies around them. Curves [...]

Today my man child turns 17. I can't believe time has flown so fast. I never knew how wonderful, frustrating, exhilarating and annoying motherhood could be when I had him. I so long to hold him and never let him go, which is so unlike me. When he was born, I refused to see or hold him. [...]

How do you define yourself? Are you a Mom Blogger, Latina Blogger, Christian Blogger, African American Blogger, Green Blogger, Tech Blogger, etc? When I started my blog, I did not want to be labeled. I had too many labels already. I was a mother, sister, aunt, student, employee, foodie, gardener, crafter, painter and so much more. Yet each label [...]

This has been a crazy month. My debit card was stolen and my account cleaned out, I forgot to return two rented tuxs and had to pay an exorbitant amount of money, and one of my best friends was in a horrible bus accident. That last one put everything into perspective. All else faded once [...]

Did you wait till the last minute to purchase your Mother's Day gift and now don't know what to do? DON'T DESPAIR! It's not too late! Here are a few ideas that I thought were worth sharing. Cook a home made meal. Get ideas by downloading this Free eCookbook, featuring 28 pages of Mother's Day recipe [...]

Where has the time gone? It seems like I just blinked and ten years zoomed by. Or is it just that I want to make time stand still. It seems like just yesterday... I was packing my bag, preparing for my scheduled cesarean. It had been a hard pregnancy. I was placed on bedrest for [...]

Picture the following scenes: Scene 1 A sabroso/savory meal cooking on the stove, soft music playing in the background, perhaps Luther Vandross singing "Never Too Much",  Teddy Pendergrass crooning "Turn Off the Lights", Maxwell reminding him just how "Fortunate" he is, or a more upbeat Bruno Mars belting out "Just The Way You Are", and [...]