A most delightful and exciting New Year to you all. Hope your Holiday Celebrations were full of fun and family time. For me, as someone who is renewed by people time and music, I could literally feel my soul being nourished by each gathering and by the beautiful Christmas music. But how I missed writing!! So [...]
Indeed a Most Happy New Year to you. But it is definitely a "Which Way Is Up" time for me. We just returned home from a 3-way trip - thankful for all the safe travel, but especially for all the eyeball-to-eyeball time we had with dear ones. We can FaceTime, chat, message, and talk on the [...]
It's been a delightful week of Feasting and Gratitude. Our gathering of 24 extended family spanned from the youngest at 2 years old to our eldest at 97. It included the watching of football and playing of football and a ridiculous number of pies. My children and husband kept telling me, "You're making too many pies!!" [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, All - I was looking up the history of our Thanksgiving, and came across this Proclamation made by George Washington on October 3, 1789. The wording was so powerful I want to share it with you this Thanksgiving Week: "By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the [...]
I am interviewing a guest today - my husband, Galen. Beth: You've had the blessing to work in orthodontics for many years. I've often heard you say how deeply grateful you are for your profession - what specifically? Galen: I started in orthodontic school in May of 1974, started practicing orthodontics in May, 1976, then more [...]
The last two weeks, I've talked about the power of our words in the lives of children. We first focused on how we can be a Positive Mirror to them, calling out their strengths and encouraging them. Then we dealt with the truth that "what we say is what we'll get". These are important parts of [...]
