Life is full of wave after wave of challenges. Some splash against us. Some crash against us, and some threaten to sweep us away like giant tsunamis. We can kick and struggle, doing our best not to go under, or we can lie on our backs and…float. Floating is easier when the waves are small. […]
I just took my daughter to work and have settled in to my own job at home. The day stretches out before me like a challenge….or a gift. I get to choose. Actually, I guess we all get to choose. I love working at home but it has its own set of challenges. One of them being that people […]
I planted a bunch of pansies yesterday. I love seeing their little faces all winter long. I’ve heard people call other folks ” a pansy” meaning weak or not brave. I find that strange since the whole reason I plant pansies is because they bloom through the winter months. All winter long I can look […]
I think that we are all lonely. That even if we have wonderful people to love us, when we are by ourselves for any length of time, we are lonely. I believe God made us that way so that we would always have a longing for Him. Life keeps us pretty busy and when it doesn’t […]
When Caleb was about four, Anna was a toddler and she followed him everywhere. He loved to play with little plastic animals. He was old enough not to put them in his mouth but it was still dangerous for Anna to play with such little toys. So once in a while he’d stand on the […]
I missed art class again…was just too tired to go…if I could have gotten there I would have been energized by the creativity and the creative spirits I share the room with…. I went to a very short sculpture class once. We chose a small chunk of stone…mine was green and about the size and shape […]
Lucy dressed up for the Atlanta Pug Fest
My husband says that I celebrate everything. And he’s right. I do. In fact, that is really what this blog is about, celebrating even the very small joys in life. But today I have something big to celebrate. I finished my middle school novel! I am having my writer son, Caleb, (see http://www.calebmonroe.com ) and my […]
Untitled My brain is tired; I hold the pen. the paper’s clean–the words within. I screw my face and grunt and squirm. The words won’t come—I draw a worm. They say what matters most—start writing, and so with all my heart I’m fighting. Today what matters most is writing! copyright 2005 Robin Prince Monroe […]
Maybe you like doing laundry as much as I do??? Laundry, Chute! A shrill alarm sounds in the hall, then still and quietness. I rush toward the siren call, to rescue my red dress. The latch released, I close my eyes then lunge into the dark, to free the poly-cottons from the hot breath of […]
On the very hardest days, the days when my circumstances pummel me like debris in a tornado, I have to make a choice. The choice is pretty simple really….I choose to trust God and believe that He loves me or I choose to believe that He can’t possibly love me and allow me to hurt […]
Tonight I get to go to my Monday Night Painters class! I haven’t been there in weeks and I can hardly wait to get back to creating little two dimensional worlds on canvas. I can also hardly wait to get back to my sweet friends there. Last week I had all my painting paraphanalia packed in the […]
It is there waiting for me…the chance of a lifetime….a publisher interested in my middle school novel. The problem??? I have to finish it. It is so close but it just isn’t there…and life keeps throwing me curve balls, heck, they are more like fast balls to the head…and I am ducking so much that […]
Well, we finally got there. We have driven past this play park for dogs for the last five months. Today was cool enough to take a pug outside for a run so we went to Six Wags. Lucy loved it!!! First she ran all around looking back at me like she was saying, “Are you […]
My pug, Lucy, makes a habit of eating anything she can get into her tiny mouth. Last night when I took her out for her last potty she found something in the leaves. That something started her coughing and gagging. This isn’t the first time she has done this. She sees the whole world as one big […]
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