The Joy and Wisdom of Grandparenting
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 a … Read more
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 of … Read more
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 with … Read more
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 … Read more
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 summer … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
By: Christine Crosby “Every soul sings the song of love. You were created for this feeling, which neither begins nor ends but simply is. Love shows no partiality and is its own reward. It can’t be possessed, nor does it possess. It withholds nothing, and with it, there’s no limit. Anything other than this is … Read more
By: Christine Crosby “Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.” Mark Twain Not a great … Read more
