Usually I only look at the pictures, but this time I’m reading the whole June 2015 National Geographic article about the little girls, in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, who are chosen to be worshiped as goddesses. 

A six-year-old girl is asked what she’ll do if she’s chosen to be a kumari, or living goddess.

There is No Shortcut to Parenting

If there was a shortcut to parenting, I thought I would have found it by now. I haven't . . . not even close. But that doesn't mean I haven't tried. And it doesn't mean I haven't failed. Still we all keep looking and hoping, don't we?

We're now about half way through the summer (nooo!!!!), and it's usually about this time that we're feeling the full effects of all that the heat and summer weather can bring. Which is why I wanted to share with you all my must have summer beauty essentials. All the products I think you guys need to have, and all the products I make sure I have, as we head into the remaining summer months!

She mentioned that he still likes to sleep on the floor of their bedroom.

And it wasn't all that big of a deal, but perhaps I was a bit surprised.

It's just that he had his own room and he was an older boy now.

But what do I know?

It really wasn't until she told my the why, that I grew concerned.

He's afraid to sleep alone. Just like me. 

Recently, in the deluge of headlines, national news, international crises, and history making events, anyone navigating the internet may have found it to be exceptionally noisy place.

As grateful as I am for the access we currently have to information, the latest commentary, and debates held in the public forum, I’m wondering if all this easily obtained information has done us a disservice.

I’m not sure that more information has made us better thinkers.