By Jordan Elizabeth. I think I was about 10 years old when I saw my mom’s high school photo. She looked basically like my mom did then…but with big, un-cool glasses and a mouth full of old-school braces. It was weird. That wasn’t my mom. (Why did she look so nerdy? Would I be that nerdy? […]

We lived in a quiet neighborhood, with a peaceful name, Old Orchard. The next forty-eight hours of my life would prove to be anything but peaceful! Those hours were the most stressful hours I had spent in my thirty-some years! And, I brought it all on myself! The story began in Old Orchard, our beautiful […]

When I was in my 20s, my girlfriend, Carolyn, dropped a little paperback book off at my home. It wasn’t my birthday; the gift was purely a gift of friendship. Little did either of us know that the book, “Gift from the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh would still be sitting on my nightstand! A […]

Our mothers teach us many lessons. Today I want to share one of the lessons my mother taught me: gratitude. An Attitude of Gratitude Yesterday, my phone rang. It was my daughter Jennifer and my grandson Jack calling from their car. They live with the rest of my darling family in Scottsdale, Arizona. I live […]