Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 10/28/07
For years after having our first babies, my friends and I uttered, “I never knew that was going to happen” many times over. From birthing books to family elders’ recollections, the pieces of advice and information bits handed out never seemed to cover what occurred beyond the outside […]

After months of inventing creative fixes for my favorite pair of shoes, I was forced to say goodbye as they rode off down the street in a big, blue metal truck. I wiped the tear from my cheek and decided to take a leap with an online shoe store I had heard about from a […]

If you’re looking for a little local history lesson for the family, stick around Boulder County and learn about the pioneers and how they built their lives where live today.  The Agricultural Heritage Center, at 8348 Highway 66 in Longmont, has been recommended to me as a fun and interesting look at how people lived […]

The old saying that having a child is like “a piece of your heart walking around outside of your body” rings true for parents worldwide. Unless our children are happily in our presence, we can never fully relax. Each time they leave for school, a friend’s house or outside activity, our gut feeling of “what […]