LITTLE BOY BLUE
Blue…mood? Blue…color of strength? Blue…sad? The sky? The the world? What was your very, very first thought when you read those first three words (Little Boy Blue)? Your very first…
UPHILL IS DOWNHILL
UPHILL IS DOWNHILL when you know where you want to go. Take this lake. It took hours of hiking, much of it uphill, to reach this destination. Although…
WHAT THEY SAID, WHAT WE BELIEVED.
THEY said: He has Autism. We might be able to train him to do some simple self-help skills. WE said: We want to show him a love he can understand….
CHILDREN, NOT OF MY BLOOD BUT OF MY HEART
I held them gently for a moment in time. Click. Two of my six children: one who had barely survived his birth father slitting his throat, then spent years in…
MULTI-TASKING: ILLUSION WITH A SOLUTION
Some of us think we can do two or three different activities at a time. Actually, we flip-flop our attention: Four seconds on the phone, three seconds for my child,…
HAPPINESS/UNHAPPINESS MUSCLE
Imagine you viewed your neurons as having the characteristic of a muscle. The more you use them, the stronger they get. The less you use them, the weaker they get….
