Until we retire, life is rushed. One solution is daily quiet time–taking time mornings for coffee and reflection before the rest of the household awakens, or evening quiet time with herbal tea, wine, or spirits after the kids are in bed. I often ponder life as I sip; so I share my musings here for you […]
My children are now adults, so I’m not parenting in the moment anymore to be able to share daily parenting successes and fails. Instead in this section I share some of my poetry and prose, written as my husband and I were raising our children. The Next Four Years of My Life… Our house is […]
My sister was a Big to a Little for a number of years. These are the terms Big Brothers, Big Sisters, the non-profit child mentoring organization uses to describe adults who volunteer to mentor children who have been registered by their families as needing another adult in their lives. Once a week on her lunch hour […]
I love this section! I silently guffawed typing the title because I imagine you, the reader, coming to this section and either thinking, cool section (!) or WTH? So this is where I teeter to explore the deep end of deeper thinking. I have always suspected that we writers and artists may be a little […]
Faith I find people’s faith journeys fascinating. I owe my spirituality today to my parents introducing me to Sunday School and church at an early age. This was first through the Lutheran baptism tradition in which as an infant, I remember nothing of the event, other than the pictures that prove I was there and […]
Power Naps! Websites regularly trumpet the age old news that many of us do not get enough sleep nightly and it takes a toll on our health, productivity and overall wellbeing. That’s where power naps come in. I swear by them. An early riser, I’ve practiced power naps all my life, at work and home! Yes, […]
I have always appreciated those who mentored me formally and informally through my life. Formally, at school, work, the arts, sports, you may be assigned a mentor for a defined period of time. Informally, mentors simply happen. In your family, school, friendship circles, work, leisure activities, a person begins giving help or advice to you, […]
The self-help books and wise person quotes are true. Change happens. Change is difficult. But, we do live through it. And, if we accept change rather than shut down, we grow in wisdom from the change. How do you handle change? At different times in my life I have fought change rather than embraced it. […]
Background: Having now crossed the half-century mark in age, I am more introspective now then in my younger years. I believe this is partly because my children are raised and I have more time to be introspective… Thus, I have become keenly intrigued by how we live our age decades: teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, etc., […]
Background: Once you pass age 50, if you have a blog, there needs to be an aging section. As a health teacher, I can tell you that no matter how great the anti-aging crèmes, don’t kid yourself. Aging is one of the body’s natural processes. Suck it up and embrace it. And, so, I include […]
Hi. About me…, who is this blogger, this Dr. Cindy? I am a daughter, sister, mom, friend, writer, the oldest of five siblings. I have adult boy/girl twins and grandchildren. I have been a writer since I picked up a pencil and learned the alphabet. The local newspaper published my first poem (age 7) about […]