Picturepocket's Blog

Category: life

  • Great Expectations

    A lot of our struggles come from wanting things from others that they aren’t providing. Parents don’t like the choices their children make, and kids get disappointed by parents. In-laws and friends don’t show up or shut up at the right times. One of the keys to happiness in relationships is to stop carrying around…

  • Keys to Success

    When I was in fourth grade, my family moved into Married Student Housing so my father could go to graduate school. The apartments came with a small shared music practice room that included an old upright piano. One summer, my mom signed me up for lessons at the rec center and I would practice every…

  • #Goals

    I have been trying to be very conscientious about how much time the kids spend indoors and be sure that everyone, including myself, gets enough sunshine, exercise and fresh air. So, yesterday after Eliana’s online school was over and everyone had had lunch, I put us all in shoes and loaded them up in the…

  • 7 Things the Pandemic is Challenging for Us

    This week we recognized the 500,000th death in the United States to Covid-19. It would be shame if we did not at least acquire some new insights. Here are seven things that the pandemic has challenged for us. 1. Our mirage of control. Humans have learned to control and separate the natural environment to such…

  • Inoculate Now

    The shots don’t protect me from the disease, my body’s immune response to them does

  • The New Jonestown

    Through radio and the internet people have been falling down the rabbit hole—a virtual cult if you will.

  • Aesop’s Fabulous Fables

    So well known are these tales that we use them as shorthand for the point we are making.

  • Til We Have Faces

    I met a fellow mom.

  • Finding Christmas

    Nobody was under the illusion that this year was going to be an easy Christmas.

  • The Body

    I had a coworker who had this quote on his wall. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What…