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Fewer Births Occur on Halloween Than Valentine’s Day

One of the most common pieces of information that genealogists search for is the birth date of a relative or ancestor. Sometimes, genealogists discover that an ancestor was born on a holiday. A study shows that fewer women give birth on Halloween than on Valentine’s Day. Were any of your relatives born on Halloween? Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health did a study that helped researchers to learn why there are fewer births occurring on Halloween than there are on Valentine’s Day. Could the meanings of these holidays be influencing the pregnant mothers? Halloween and Valentine’s day were … Continue reading →

Thoughts on Working on Labor Day

Today I noticed that one of my fellow bloggers, Richele McFarlin, wrote about the topic of Labor Day. I’ll be working a little bit this Labor Day just like Richelle, and I am sure that we won’t be the only home-based professionals spending at least some of the day working. I really do not mind working on Labor Day because there are no family barbecues, parties, or other events beckoning to me to come away from my desk. If there were, it might be a little harder to stay on task. The main reason that I will be working on … Continue reading →

How To Turn Down the Volume on Negative Thoughts

When you’re worried, negative thoughts can get progressively louder. What starts out as a simple concern can snowball out of control, with one negative thought leading to another. Before you know it, the worry is all-consuming and the negative thoughts are all you can hear. The louder they get, the more anxious you feel. The more anxious you feel, the more intense your negative thoughts. It’s a vicious cycle and before you know it, you’re living in, on and through a channel that only plays the negative soundtrack of your life. Only you can turn down the volume. Only you … Continue reading →

National Invisible Illness Awareness Week: September 14-20, 2009

Some of my blogging buddies recently posted their answers a questionnaire called “30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know.” Those posts led me to National Invisible Illness Awareness Week, going on now. A sampling of questions, with my own answers: The illness I live with is: depression I was diagnosed with it in the year: 2000 But I had symptoms since: 1997 The biggest adjustment I’ve had to make is: the stigma. At first, I was very resistant to the idea of therapy or medication because I felt like having depression somehow made me a bad person, … Continue reading →

A Day All to Yourself?

Have you ever said, ‘I just want one day to myself?’ I thought that’s what I was going to have on Friday. Then Thursday night I found out our choir had a concert on Friday at one of the local nursing homes. ‘Oh no, I thought.’ After a crazy week including along with the usual housework and writing project, two other concerts, shopping, and a book launch I was organizing for GROW- UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS – an anthology edited by Anne Hamilton and Lyn Hurry and containing a number of Christian writers that included me, the last thing I … Continue reading →

Tristi Pinkston Shares Thoughts on Juggling, Ranting and Raving, and Faith

One of my resolutions for ‘08 was to emphasize the positives of marriage. My thinking was that if we have good examples to follow, we’ll have guides to help strengthen our own relationships. That said, I’d like to introduce you to my fellow blogger, Tristi Pinkston. Tristi is a Senior Blogger who covers Media, Movie Reviews, and LDS and has been married to her husband twelve and a half years. I asked if she’d be game for an interview because she’s a very witty, wise woman who always has sage advice. In other words, she’s primo role model material. I … Continue reading →

How a Positive Attitude Affects Your Relationship

Since October is Positive Attitude Month, I thought it’d be a good time to reflect on our attitudes and how they affect our marriages. Because they definitely have an impact. Mirror Effect In our household we live by the “you get what you give” motto. It’s basically the same principal as the Golden Rule: treat me how you expect me to treat you back. I’m currently reading The Secret in which this principle is emphasized time and again. I first came to know of it, though, in a different manner (what you think upon grows) courtesy of Dr. Wayne Dyer’s … Continue reading →

More Positive Thoughts for Your Day

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At times, we all get bogged down in negativity or difficult situations. Here are some more positive statements to meditate upon and perhaps inspire you to a better, more productive and happy frame of mind. The thoughts you chose to think and believe right now are creating your future. These thoughts form your experiences tomorrow, next week, and next year. Louise L. Hay The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price. Suze Orman When life presents more challenges than you can handle, … Continue reading →

What You Think Upon Grows Day: What Does My Dog Think? (Because I Want to Think Like Him!)

Perhaps the principal of attracting (or growing) what you think about has been around for eons, but the person who introduced it to me and put it in terms that made sense was Dr. Wayne Dyer. Earlier this year I read his books 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace and Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires. The concept of attracting into your life what you dwell on ran through them both –and smacked me in the face. I haven’t quite been the same since. Because while it’s a principal that makes sense, it’s … Continue reading →

Blogging Your Baby

In 2005, I received a beautiful journal, complete with leather covering, as a Christmas present from my wife. She bought it for me because I mentioned that I wanted to write a bit about my experiences as a father and have a conversation with my daughter. I did not begin to make entries until May of 2006, and they were sporadic at best. Then within a month or two I had stopped completely. I stared at it every day on my dresser, but the guilt was not enough to pick it up and write. How lazy can I possibly be? … Continue reading →