by Lisa-Jo | Jul 30, 2014 | Daughters, Your parenting stories
While I’m on a bit of a summer blog break I’ve invited friends in different ages and stages of parenting to come and put their feet up on my Cheerios-strewn sofa and share a few of their stories with us. On Monday we heard a mother’s advice to her...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 28, 2014 | Daughters, Your parenting stories
While I’m on a bit of a summer blog break I’ve invited friends in different ages and stages of parenting to come and put their feet up on my Cheerios-strewn sofa and share a bit of their stories with us. Today my friend and mentor and blogging big sister,...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 24, 2014 | Five Minute Friday
We tend to think that starting is the hardest part of the story. I think it’s finishing. Because along the way you will get tired of the thing you started. You will doubt it and resent it and wonder at it and want to change it, edit it, scrap it altogether. Then you...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 17, 2014 | Five Minute Friday
Sometimes we sit in the dark and wonder if what we write matters. Of if how we parent matters. This life of writing a legacy with our kids. So today I wanted to remember a post I pecked out on my cell phone one night in the middle of a hurricane warning two years ago....
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 15, 2014 | Books you should read
We’ve been in Northern Michigan for 10 days. I couldn’t get a single bar of reception on my phone. It was about the best thing that’s happened to me all year. No Facebook, no Twitter or email or Instagram. I forgot to compare myself to anyone else. I...
