I’m in California. Yup, right now. Not a great time to come to this country, and for sure I was nervous. So many stories this year of tourists getting treated… [Continue Reading]
Tag: Growing up
the half empty or half full cup of ‘what ifs’
😞 What if tomorrow the sun disappears and everything goes black as black? What if your insides turn on you and slowly take you away? What if you choose wrong… [Continue Reading]
Childhood Amnesia – a thousand days forgotten forever
“All that we ourselves are has been made by the child, by the child we were in the first two years of our lives.” Maria Montessori Elwyn loves to run…. [Continue Reading]
The magic of human touch – 9 random special memories
~ Reach out and touch, somebody’s hand, make this world a better place, if you can ~ 1 Play Not long after my family moved to Australia, I became friends… [Continue Reading]
This Ain’t No Walk In The Park (Coronavirus blog-story #1)
Dylan stomped his feet and wriggled so much that Sharon took twice as long as normal to put his sandals on. “Wait up little man, please stop moving,” she pleaded…. [Continue Reading]
Valentine’s Romance
It’s Valentine’s Day again. Ho hum, you say. Or do you shrug and say you have romance in your life all the time and not just today! Or, are you… [Continue Reading]
There’s no place like home… is there
Recently my son expressed disappointment that he has no childhood home, to return home to. He was lamenting the fallout from the lack of stability he experienced in his childhood…. [Continue Reading]
Let it go
“Own up!” the adult male said. “Who fired that puff?” “He did!” squealed one boy. “No way, it was him!” protested the other. The third boy rolled around giggling his… [Continue Reading]
Childhood freedoms
Forty years ago. One October, when I was six, my family left Holland and arrived in Australia, a land of salty air and big skies, plenty of space and warm… [Continue Reading]