Category Archive: General

Your child could be the next one!

A friend’s beautiful daughter is lying in a hospital bed in a coma tonight. Why? Well, she decided that drugs were the way to go. Her entire family and friends tried to do anything and everything they could to help her to give it up. Nothing worked and now all of them are suffering because […]

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The Essence of Heart

I have been asked so often, what my favorite cause is, and I have a difficult time answering because I have so many favorite causes. After all, there are so many people and animals out there who need help in countless ways.  So,  having said that, I guess  my favorite causes are those that direct […]

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Military Divorce for Stay At Home Moms

I have been thinking so much about Divorce For Stay At Home Moms as a specific generality, (Does that make sense?) that I overlooked some essentials. A stay at home mom, facing divorce, is a stay at home mom, facing divorce. Right? I think not. Adding the military component to the equation well may contribute […]

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“To be, or not to be: that is the question…”

It’s funny how differently we see life after our children have flown the coop. Before that time, we felt sure that we knew all the answers and knew exactly what life was all about. We were so caught up in raising our children and doing what we deemed as the right mothering action, we put […]

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In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms Unless Divorce Happens!

Dr. Laura, I agreed with everything you wrote in your book until about ten years ago when divorce shattered my family and my life. No longer did my pride in a job well done help to make me feel fulfilled or honored as a stay at home mom. Quite the contrary. Why? Well, I’ll tell […]

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Help is available to SAHMs if husbands die but not if they leave!

Several of you asked me to re-post this so here it is! I watched the Rachael Ray show today and one of the guests on the show had a tremendous impact on me. His story was so very sad and his mission because of it, so very inspirational. The man’s name is Matt Logelin and […]

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MARK VICTOR HANSEN…SO MUCH MORE THAN A GLASS HALF FULL

Mark Victor Hansen, the co-author of The Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books, has permitted me to tell you about what he taught me and my experiences, after meeting him.  I met Mr. Hansen and listened to his words at the Mega Book New York seminar in May 2007. Mr. Hansen spoke of […]

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Divorce is linked to Heart Disease…duh!

Did you know that the stress of a bad marriage, separation, divorce and the subsequent financial problems can kill you? Ladies, as you live through the divorce process, you need to take care of your children but you also need to take care of you! If your diet is not a good one and you […]

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