Reaching senior citizen status isn’t all that bad . . . for the most part. Oh, sure, your mind is still operating on twenty-year-old time, and your body can’t keep up. Staying awake to catch the eleven o’clock news is a challenge. Going into a clothing store and trying to find clothes that don’t make [...]

A child inspired me. I never saw her. Her grandfather and I are members of Emerald Coast Writers and in a pre-meeting discussion we were fawning over our grandkids, as grandparents are licensed (and fully expected) to do.
He had taken his family on a vacation and he and his granddaughter, who is six, were out [...]

Sometimes our lives become so complicated and so full of all the things we “have” to get done or obtain, the things that top of our so-called priority list, that we miss the things that really matter.  It’s not hard in this day and age to get caught up in the hectic pace of life.  [...]

Remember as a kid, all those crazy things you were told by parents? And then you grew up to learn many of them weren’t true? And the horror! To think they were capable of lying!
For fun, many of those untruths are listed below. Some you might never heard of, but they will all give [...]

Child of Mine, so sweet – so bad,
Can’t count the times you’ve made me mad!
Can’t count the times you’ve made me smile…
And now we walk you down the aisle.
 
Child of Mine, so precious still
We watch you grow and fly off your hill
To soar above the lessons learned,
To share a new life with a love [...]

Woohoo!  It’s summer.  (And officially hot, at least here in Florida.)
Summer evokes memories in us all.  For me, that’s long days of playing outside, catching fireflies at dusk, swatting mosquitoes, and making slingshots out of my mom’s old hose and rolling bits of aluminum foil into balls for the neighborhood “battle” all the kids played.
It’s [...]

An eating disorder is often thought to be a “girl’s disease,” but this is not the case. Boys also experience eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, or extreme dieting and exercising. The boy may not be obsessed with thinness, but rather, he is more concerned with altering his body type, whether that means gaining or [...]

When your child experiences sudden changes in his or her skin, the cause of such changes can be baffling. Whether it’s bumps, rashes, hives, inflammation, hardening, or itching, it’s tough watching your little loved-one suffer. When your child’s skin keeps having a reaction or unexpected flare ups, this can also lead to frustration as you [...]

HOLIDAYS CAN BE JOYFUL OR BRUTAL.
WHICH WILL YOURS BE?

By Vicki Hinze  ©2006-2008
Holidays are supposed to be happy times of celebration.
Times when friends and families gather and share the joys of the season.
So why then are holidays the most stressful times of the year?  Why do suicide rates soar?  So many suffer depression and others [...]