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The Circle of Life - Brianna Popsickle
We’d been driving for a while. Neither of us said a word. My husband’s eyes were fixed on the road ahead, while I glanced out the passenger window. Suddenly he broke the silence. “Can you believe we’re doing this? he asked. “Not really,” I answered.... Submitted 19 days ago.

Someone Special! - - Michael Moody
Have you ever had an event change your life so much you thought it was unreal? Well I Did! I had someone enter my life that changed me forever. At first sight, touch and kiss it was everlasting love for life. He treats me like someone has never treated me before. He treats me better then my... Submitted 3 days 23 hours ago.

Tips For Parents With Oppositional Teenagers - Karen Vincent
Does your teen have Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) or do you suspect they do? If so, they will respond differently than most teens when you try to set limits or implement consequences. They will often rebel and will challenge you more, disregard rules more and sometimes eve Submitted 4 days 22 hours ago.

The Art of Art is in Everything We Do © - - Arlene Wright-Correll
The Art of Art is in Everything We Do © This week’s several email questions asked about subjects that have all ready been covered over the past two years so I want to take a writer’s license and talk about something else. In 1969 I read a little book titled, “The Art... Submitted 17 days 3 hours ago.

Responding to Difficult Behaviors With a Different Approach to Time Out - - Connie Hammer
All children want to be good and please their caretakers . Young children don't PLAN to misbehave or fall apart. When a child has an emotional meltdown it signals they are having trouble controlling their emotions, especially when the demands of the environment exceed their current ability to... Submitted 17 days 20 hours ago.

How Do You Make Your Teenager Feel? - Karen Vincent
I truly love this quote by Maya Angelou, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel". This is so very, v ery true. Our emotions will always carry more weight and stick with us more than words alone.... Submitted 17 days 5 hours ago.

The Event That Changed Me Forever - Michael Moody
Have you ever had an event change your life so much you thought it was unreal? Well I Did! I had someone enter my life that changed me forever. At first sight, touch and kiss it was everlasting love for life. He treats me like someone has never treated me before. He treats me better then my... Submitted 17 days 15 hours ago.

Be Resilient - Thrive And Be Happy In An Uncertain Future - - Alan Detwiler
Nothing is as certain as change. But no one can know just how much things are going to change - and how fast. History gives us some insight. Wars, plagues, famines, political upheavals... they all seem remote partly because, for most of us, we did not directly experience them. But they did happen... Submitted 13 hours 25 minutes ago. NEW!

3 Simple Ways for Busy Moms to Find 3 Extra Hours Per Day - - Michelle Wilson
"If only I had more time!" seems to be the cry of many busy moms today. Our days seem to fill up, speed up, and pass us by before we are really able to accomplish what we had planned, or to spend as much quality time with our families as we had hoped! I am writing this article on what happens to... Submitted 16 days 19 hours ago.

White Wicker and A Whole Lot of Love - Brianna Popsickle
When my parents retired, we gave them white wicker rockers and a table for their front porch. Over the years, many wonderful memories were created there. When I visited, I’d have early morning coffee and late afternoon beers with my dad on that porch. Somewhere in between, my mother and I... Submitted 33 days 2 hours ago.

A Fathers’ Pride - MKDS
There are many reasons of which I can look back with a smile on my life; the people that I have met, the good deeds I have carried out, great memories that my eyes have seen during my journey in this world. Growing up as a son, a brother, a friend, my walk of life has taken me through some very... Submitted 48 days 6 hours ago.

Do Not Try to Sit on Your Coke Bottle - Dianne Lehmann
Have you ever wondered what engendered some of the seemingly ridiculous warnings and precautions in instruction manuals? Mostly I imagine they are occasioned by the American tendency to sue anyone and everyone for their own stupidity. I once wrote an article to the effect that you cannot... Submitted 71 days 2 hours ago.

An Automobile in the Living Room - Jack H. Schick
Disappointingly, the Pipersville Free Library is closed until further notice. The president of the library’s board of directors, Maureen Harvey said, “We’re hoping not too long,” but it probably won’t be open for at least another couple of weeks. The library is... Submitted 114 days 6 hours ago.

Looks like a Tomato - Liesl Garner
After I have read stories, sung songs, and tucked into bed my two little guys, my seven-year old says, "You know what's wierd?" We are hugging goodnight, and once again, he has made up another ritual for bedtime, prolonging the inevitable of sleep. He reminds me of his older brother, who, when... Submitted 116 days 16 hours ago.

In the Kitchen with Dianne - Dianne Lehmann
Whenever I'm in the kitchen, it's kind of an adventure. I make it up as I go and I've been lucky. Much of what I make is edible (these days) even though I ignore, for the most part, recipes and measuring cups and the like. It wasn't always so though. When Bernd and I were first married, I... Submitted 143 days 4 hours ago.

The Poison Fish Incident - Jack H. Schick
I like to think I’m a compassionate guy. I suppose most people like to think the best about themselves, though. I realize that I sometimes fall short. After all, none of us is perfect. My wife, on the other hand, thinks I am consistently and invariably an insensitive jerk. I often take... Submitted 159 days 7 hours ago.

Enjoy An Old Favorite Apple Cake Family Recipe - - The Old Gray Mare
We are blessed with wonderful crops of apples in New England starting in mid-August. Orchards produce bountiful harvests of apples in countless varieties, and “put them to sleep” in cold storage until they “wake them up” for sale midway through winter and beyond, right up... Submitted 162 days 19 hours ago.

This Is My Family and What They Mean To Me: Part Three - Jennifer Stewart
This is Part Three of a series of three articles. For Parts One and Two click the links at the bottom of the page. Fast forward again to about four months ago. I’d had over ten years in therapy of being given, over and over and very consistently, a broad and all-encompassing experience of... Submitted 211 days 6 hours ago.

This Is My Family and What They Mean To Me: Part Two - Jennifer Stewart
This is Part Two of three articles. For Part One, click the link at the bottom. Fast forward to the age of 31. My attempt to find a way to be happy and make something of my dreams, go somewhere meaningful with my lust for life, had failed. I was a broken young woman living in Italy, and I came... Submitted 212 days 12 hours ago.

Simple Steps To Make Cut Flowers Last Longer - - The Old Gray Mare
Your loved one brings you a delightful bouquet of flowers. They are a surprise and you want them to last as long as possible. In your mind you review some of the steps to take to enjoy their beauty a little longer. You remember the Martha Stewart Show that discussed making the most of cut... Submitted 219 days 17 hours ago.

My Grandmother And Her Secret Plan - - Hilda Cang
When I was about 7 or 8 years old, my grandmother said to me, out of the blue, " Mei Mei (rhymed with May May) or simply means Girl Girl, tomorrow Po Po bring you and your sisters (3 of them) to the gold shop downtown . I want to see some gold. " Jewellery she meant ? I nodded my head in... Submitted 236 days 6 hours ago.

My Grandpa – With Two Horses on Two Continents - Christofer French
When I was 12 I had my last conversation with my maternal Grandfather. He died the next year. I went to his funeral on a cold March day. The weather was blustery and cold and seemed to be ordered perfectly for the ceremony. Later that day, it started to rain, and I looked out of the window with... Submitted 238 days 4 hours ago.

What Grandpop Taught Me - Jack H. Schick
I wasn’t allowed to get my tonsils out because of my grandpop. They laughed at me in fourth grade when the teacher read our kindergarten attendance records. I won the contest, according to my buddies, by missing 50 days. The doctor wanted to take them out so I would quit missing school with... Submitted 238 days 22 hours ago.

I Missed Out On the Countless Blessings of Grandparents - - The Old Gray Mare
I really did miss out – not having grandparents! Observing my generation of people in stores, traveling or simply having lunch at McDonalds with their grandchildren reminds me that I missed out on a chunk of life. I think grandparents are the best thing going for families with youngsters... Submitted 240 days 3 hours ago.

I Yelled At My Mom - Jack H. Schick
When she got real old, my great-grandmother moved into my grandmother’s house. My grandfather was already dead so there was extra room there. To me, as just a kid, she didn’t seem to be much trouble. She just sat in a chair up in the spare bedroom. She hardly ever said anything. Half... Submitted 260 days 7 hours ago.