Progress not perfection

Maintaining relationships (and/or blogs) takes an effort, but it doesn’t have to be all work. While visiting the Hudson highlands to attend a conference, my co-blogger, Jane and I were able to link up. Jane and I have been friends for a long time (45 years!). Over that time, we’ve stayed in touch, but working together…

What Is In A Name?

Well, a lot actually. People think very hard about what they will name their babies. Alicia and Paul had a whole list of names. They entertained a crowd at a party once, proposing name combinations and letting everyone vote. I attended by FACETIME and it was a fun process. The end result was a great…

Every day Earth friendliness

When we visited our grandson in March, he would occasionally use the potty with his Mommy or Daddy’s help. At 6 weeks old and just able to hold his head up, he was still wobbly on the potty. Patrick’s parents were sensitive to when he needed to nurse and similarly, they were learning his elimination pattern;…

Our Food is Killing Us!

My coblogger Joan gave us some pretty scary Food for Thought in her post on Friday. Since then we have been discussing that we need to propose some solutions to these food dilemnas. And we wondered to each other, what CAN we eat? Is it really THAT bad? Actually it is worse. Yet another story popped…