Tag: life lessons

My name is Donia, pronounces like the Spanish word Doña. Not Danyuh and not Donna or Dona. I just wanted to get this out...

My son will be turning two this month, and boy, am I getting a glimpse of what's to come! Every day he pronounces new...

When your child does something that needs correcting, what words do you choose? As I’m entering my age of awareness, I’m becoming increasingly sticky with words...

The ability to power through is an internal switch that flips when you become a mom (along with the maternal instinct). But the word...

In some ways, Summer 2020 beat me down hard. COVID was rampant, my kids were home, my business was slow, and my anxiety was...

Self-care isn’t a moment. It’s a lifestyle. The simple, idealistic way to approach self-care (the way it’s portrayed in the media and casually discussed in...

My stomach sank with an unfamiliar panic as I read that my kids would be home from school for THREE WEEKS. 2021 me says...

Maybe Forest Gump is right, and life is like a box of chocolates. Each day we never know what we are going to get. This...

Looking back at old photographs, I found a tattered, wrinkled picture that had hung above my bed in my freshman dorm in college. My...

Well, my friends, it has almost been one year since the pandemic shut down our state, beautiful communities, sacred schools, places of worship, and...