HAPPENINGS
Seaside Public Library
Thursday, April 18th -- 7 p.m.
Seaside, OR
Coast to Coast AM with Greg Noory
10 p.m. Friday, April 19th
We'll talk about the Synchronicity, Intuition and the Perfect Trap
How to Ease Parenting Stress Every Once-in-Awhile
“Being a mother is learning about strengths you did’t know you had, and dealing with fears you didn’t know existed.” –Linda Wooten, from Mom’s the Word, by Allen Klein I’m thinking a lot about my role as a mother. Trying to figure out my place in all of it. Sometimes, it seems as though [...]
Lessons Learned from My Daughter
“The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly – indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.” Arianna Huffington Quote from the book Mom’s the Word: The Wit, Wisdom and Wonder of Motherhood, by Allen Klein It can be hard to [...]
Six ways to improve your relationship
Remember in the beginning when you were so connected you could finish each other’s sentences? You knew just what your partner was thinking and you hung on every breath thinking he or she was the smartest, bestest thing out there? Now though, after years together, all that feels familiar and just plain boring. One of [...]
How to ease stress and improve your relationship
I’ve been travelling — a lot. And, a crazy thing happened: I realized that I really missed my husband. When I was tired and worn and returning to a hotel room at night, I thought of how good it would have felt to have him there. Okay, maybe not on the first night. I mean that [...]
Letting go and finding faith while parenting
One of the 32,000 challenges I’ve encountered to date as a parent, has been the one that requires me to give up, let up, and let go. To hold Sweet P accountable for her choices. To allow her to cry through her disappointments and cope with uncomfortable things in life – instead of taking over [...]
Three ways to move through relationship trouble spots
There are times, like on Valentine’s Day, that I reflect fondly on the year my now husband, (then a romantic boy wonder) wooed me with a – wrench. Yep. In a sweet, attempt to impress me, The Boy gave me a wrench so that I could fix my own garbage disposal. Ahh, the good ol’ [...]
Experts offer one relationship-saving strategy to end blame
‘Tis the week when people everywhere will be channeling Barry White – or Manilow — in honor of Valentine’s Day. But, if you want to sustain your relationship and even enjoy it, the Barrys are not gonna be enough. No amount of R&B and soft rock is going to help if you can’t handle the [...]
