Letting Go...To Grasp What Really Matters
A few weeks ago, I celebrated a birthday. I was overwhelmed with kindness from all directions…family, friends, even strangers who have become part of my life through this blog. Several of my closest friends planned to take me out to dinner. The first time it was scheduled, my daughter became ill and we had to cancel. The second time it…
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It has become a common occurrence for readers to send me messages like the one I recently received from a disheartened mother after dropping off her child at school. This is what she wrote: Today I happened to be second in carpool line. In front of me there was a mother playing on her phone as the child watched. While…
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Before I became Hands Free I loathed folding clean laundry. The unsightly mile-high heap created a persistent bother (similar to a wart) whenever I caught sight of it passing by the laundry room. Eventually, I couldn’t stand the eyesore any longer and would force myself to fold it, which typically meant putting off playing or interacting with my daughters while…
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I often get pulled aside while out in the community to talk about my blog. And the number one question people ask me this about my Hands Free revelation is: “Where did this all start?” Although I can remember the moment of my Breakdown-Breakthrough awakening so vividly that it still brings tears to my eyes, I cannot articulate exactly how…
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*Name has been changed to protect privacy Last week I received an email message from a man living on the East Coast. It was the type of message that one has to read several times to grasp the full capacity of the words. I felt the hairs on my arms stand on end at one point in the letter. But…
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called, “The Magazine Gesture.” It described how simple, every day acts of kindness often mean more to people than extravagant gifts. Just to know someone is thinking about you can do more than simply brighten one’s day, it can impact someone’s life. Many of you wrote and told me of such experiences….
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