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By: Christine Crosby
Tracing your family history is an exciting, fun and rewarding thing to do. If you haven’t given it a try yet, jump in; technology has made it easier than ever. There are many online companies that make it simple and cost effective (if not free) to trace your family tree. In [...]
By: Christine Crosby
“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people—no mere father and mother—as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world [...]
By: Christine Crosby
I recently met an amazing woman who has suffered great hardship in her young life. Her name is Catherine Weaver and despite her life challenges she has her priorities straight and knows what is really important. At the top of her list is family. She shared her original prose about family [...]
By: Christine Crosby
When I had to put down my 14 year-old Doberman a few years ago, I felt as though I had lost a child. I still get choked up when I think of him. We used to refer to him as my youngest daughter’s brother. She fussed about him like a younger brother [...]
By: Christine Crosby
“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer…. Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Summer is the time to get out and enjoy lots of family fun, but be sure you practice [...]
By: Christine Crosby
Dr. Oz recently reported a Vanderbilt University study: average Americans spend nearly eight hours a day—more than 50 hours per week—planted on their behinds. There’s a cost to all that downtime.
Sitting, our bodies undergo a metabolic slowdown. We use less blood sugar for energy and burn fewer calories. Sitting also decreases [...]
By: Christine Crosby
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” Buddha
Some of [...]
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