Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

After I informed my college roommate and good friend that her goddaughter, my daughter, had been demoted from an angel to a star in the Christmas pageant, this is what she wrote back: “Please tell my goddaughter that a star is so important. I’m proud that she got that role (no demotion in my eyes).…

You sure do learn a lot about a person’s personality and temperament when you assemble a gingerbread house. And even more when you make 14 of them. I’m thinking about patenting this activity as a tool for diagnosing the different kinds of mental illness–obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, eating disorder, and bipolar disorder–because all of them…

My old self is definitely back, because only she would be foolish enough to volunteer to organize David’s Christmas party. I’m investing in life again, which is truly a miracle. Last year I missed the Christmas party because I was afraid I would have a panic attack and be stranded at the school, unable to…

Now here’s an image worth a holiday chuckle: a dozen naked women in the gym locker room rushing to get their pants on to the tune of “Jingle Bells.” “I wish they would just kill the music,” one woman says, and we all laugh. For the moment the gym is my support group. These women,…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners