by Louise | Apr 28, 2017 | Encourage, Friendship, Louise, Parenting, Uncategorized
We love spending time at our favorite lake in the summer. I love watching the water in all its moods – but when it’s calm and still like glass, nothing beats taking the canoe and spending some peaceful moments paddling along the shore. My son even...
by Louise | Jan 16, 2017 | Encourage, Louise, Parenting, Uncategorized
I am what I’d call a recovering perfectionist. Sometimes I fall off the wagon, but in general I am so much better than I used to be! I used to see things very neatly – black or white, right or wrong – and I was pretty stingy with grace. But years...
by Louise | Jan 1, 2017 | Faith, Gwen, Inspire, Louise, Shannon, Uncategorized
New Year’s Resolutions are so UGH. Mine are always broken or forgotten or just plain unrealistic and tossed before January is halfway through. But I do like having goals, and vision, and something to work toward. Something that guides my actions around...
by Louise | Dec 30, 2016 | Empower, Food, Louise, Uncategorized
Christmas is full of family traditions, right? What we do, what we eat, who we give gifts to, when we unwrap those gifts, etc., etc. In our family, one of the best traditions is making cream candy. My great-grandfather borrowed this recipe from a friend more than...
by Louise | Nov 13, 2016 | Encourage, Louise, Uncategorized
The election is over and I’m going to tell myself that someone, somewhere planned US elections to be completed just before our attention was diverted by tidings of comfort and joy. Like the song says, “We need a little Christmas, right this very...
by Louise | Oct 23, 2016 | Faith, Inspire, Louise, Uncategorized
My mother-in-law and friends during their 18-state excursion, at a stop in Bar Harbor, Maine. My mother-in-law is a news junkie. And a politics junkie too. She spends a lot of time listening to the round-the-clock cable news cycle, and she loves to discuss and...
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