Forgiveness, Compassion and Hope…

My life started with a Catholic Mom and a Lutheran Dad from a small town in northern Wisconsin. So we celebrated Baby Jesus and Santa. My dad did not go to church with us every week, but on the holidays, we attended mass as a family. I remember getting dressed on...

Kids and Money and You

My beloved spring is here and I have so many weeds. It could be that is what I grow best. Actually, I don’t clean out my gardens and containers in the fall so the bugs and beetles and birds have places to hide and find yummy bugs. So I have weeds. Big ones with lots...

Spring – Our Lives Can Be Renewed

Hope is spring to me and spring time arouses hope.  As a gardener and a curious sort, wandering around seeing the green tips of new life coming up from the dark, wet, cold earth NEVER gets old.  I am sure if I were left in the earth through fall and winter, I would...

Oh Where Oh Where Did My Patience Go?

“Natalie, I have lost all of my patience with everything”. I am hearing this more and more and mostly from women. They seem very surprised that their “patience button” gets pushed so often. And…they are so easily angered. Women are surprised by the oddest things. My...

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