September 2010

She Made Red Velvet

by Pam Godwin

Do you bake? I don’t, not really. The occasional Tollhouse cookies or birthday cupcakes from a mix, and a key-lime pie a very long time ago, but honestly, I am not much of a baker. I find the mess and the required preciseness of it more stressful than cathartic, although I once read that baking […]

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categoryPosted: 09/23/10 1:35 PM

“I have no more conditioner,” my 4th grade daughter reminded me as I dropped her at school last week, her hair looking frizzy, as she grabbed her book bag, kissed me goodbye and ran into school.  I mentally added it to my list of things to do and dreaded the day ahead filled with mundane […]

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categoryPosted: 09/23/10 1:30 AM

Ready, Set, Run

by Pam Godwin

I downloaded an App from  Apple’s iTunes store this week. Not so different, new or exciting? Well, it wasn’t just any App. It was something that represents a big “to do” for me.  And then, I actually did it. What did I do? I went running. And I used a silly little App on my […]

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categoryPosted: 09/14/10 12:40 PM

Forced to Do Nothing

by Karen Amster-Young

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”    – Winnie-the-Pooh Sometimes old friends can be prophetic. Somewhere about the middle of August, I was having dinner with a very good friend visiting from the West Coast. We’ve known each other since […]

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categoryPosted: 09/10/10 9:58 AM