All Entries in the "Guest Bloggers" Category
A Navy Recruit - Florence Shay
report here, and cleverly using the only paper handy. I can still recall what most of the abridged words mean.
He signed up to join the Navy directly out of high school with a buddy of his. He wasn’t that eager to enlist but there was nothing else to do, and his buddy wanted them to stay together. After two years in Security at his base in Washington state, and a visit home, he was now on his way to his next post in Hawaii. “And your buddy?” Pause. “He killed himself. After boot camp.”
The Greatest Commandment — Rev. Amy Starr Redwine
I am a mother, a pastor, a wife (of a pastor), and an American. I am also a supporter of Barack Obama. I have eagerly followed his career since his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. I fervently hope and pray that in just a couple more weeks he will be the president-elect and that in just a few months he will begin to implement an entirely new vision for America.
We live as if we have the answers - Florence Shay
Mindful Mom is proud to have Florence Shay (Jeeps’ mom) guest blogging for us today. Florence has a wonderful blog about daily life selling rare books to discerning book lovers. Florence knows about what she doesn’t know and she learned it the hard way.
I didn’t know I didn’t know it until long past when it would have been useful to know it. How easy, how comfortable it would be to immediately recognize that you don’t know it. You can pause, consider, and try to Find Out. No, we live as if we have the answers. Only now in my senior years can I look back and say, “Yikes! It seemed so right, and it was so wrong.” I’m positive I know it all now. Learned from living through it.
I am Sarah Palin — Colleen Wainwright a/k/a the Communicatrix
Mindful moms are jumping with joy today because the Communicatrix is guest blogging! Here she goes:
As an ardent supporter of feminism, I feel the same uneasiness about bashing Palin’s feminist choices (how dare the good, Christian mom abandon her beloved spawn!) as I do about the knee-jerk assumption that questioning her fitness on other grounds (experience, tolerance, conduct) calls into question my own. It ain’t a buffet, kids; it’s all or nothing. Let your objections be on true neutral ground or let them go: they’re not real objections.
PeaceJam - Brett Engle
This year on September 11-13th, we’re doing another PeaceJam International Youth Conference, this time in Los Angeles with 7 Nobel Peace Laureates. 3,000 Jammers from around the world are flying, driving, and busing in to take on The Global Call to Action, a plan to address the 10 core issues which the Nobel’s feel threaten the world over this next decade, by implementing 1 BILLION service projects.
Hard Questions — Liz Dubelman
Liz Dubelman answers her 4 year old daughter’s tough questions about sex in this hilarious Well-Told Tale podcast from VidLit.
Mindful mom is mortified that there was a techno-glitch with this podcast earlier today. If you tried to listen before and heard an exceedingly boring public radio interview, I urge you to listen again to this very funny podcast by VidLit
Building Emotional Intelligence and Fostering Resilience in Children — Linda Lantieri
What are some of your hopes for the important children in your life? Whether they will be successful at realizing those hopes is dependent on whether we, the adults in their lives, have equipped them with the inner strength they will need to approach their day-to-day challenges as well as the big challenges life may throw them.
Changing the world one pillow at a time — Danielle Sobol
While working at a pediatric cardiology clinic in Israel last year with Zanzibari children, grad student Danielle Sobol became fascinated with their culture. She went to Zanzibar and met a group of truly amazing women and discovered that while her basic computer skills were very helpful to them, they were making a difference themselves with their not-so-basic skills making pillows.
True Mom Confession: I’m saying NO to YES. Romy Lassally
I confess, I started off the summer with a commitment to myself (and unbeknownst to them…my family) that I would loosen up and try to say YES more often than I did during the school year. It worked for a few weeks . . .
Not so fit - Lisa Dinsmore
What keeps me going back for more? I can’t stand “losing” to a machine. I realize this is a competition only in my mind, but since it’s keeping track of my fitness “progress” I’m compelled to make it change its’ tune and am scared every time I step on the board. I guess anything that gets the heart rate up is a good thing, right?
The Ritual Tribal Abandonment of Mothers - Jeanne Denney
Yes, it is about tribal fear of touching into this need and sometimes this pain. Yes, it is about feeling alone with a task that feels impossible to do well alone. Yes, the tribe has resigned from its role in the life of my children and from its needed and necessary role in supporting me.