by skimhenson | Sep 14, 2011 | renovations for home and life
Living in our 4,000-square-foot home was comfortable. We bought the fixer-upper on meager salaries. Within months, my husband and I were offered better paying jobs and renovating the old place got a lot easier. We sealed the nearly 100-year-old rambling house with...
by skimhenson | Sep 8, 2011 | awareness and action, choices and decisions
Life sometimes feels like the movie Groundhog Day. I hang in there and hope for the best. However, until I change something, the same scene plays again and again. Albert Einstein called it insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results....
by skimhenson | Sep 5, 2011 | awareness and action, honesty
“I’m fat, aren’t I?” she said. Instead of gently responding that maybe exercise and an eating plan may help, I spent hours telling her what I thought she wanted to hear, that she wasn’t overweight at all. When a mutual friend reproached another about being...
by skimhenson | Sep 1, 2011 | choices and decisions, relationships
Have you ever noticed when you try to force others to do what you want, they tend to fight, take flight, or rebel? My husband and I learned plenty about this when raising two teenagers at the same time. No matter what age, though, I think most of us react similarly. I...
by skimhenson | Aug 29, 2011 | awareness and action
“If you’re trying hard and not making any progress, quit trying. Quit trying and start being,” said Linda, our Pilates instructor, reading from a meditation by Ralph Marston. Two weeks earlier she read one about doing. “Start now what you hope to accomplish and...