Maddie's Mom Writes

Category: Thought for the Day

  • The Long Wait

    When you are young, every wait is long. Every trip in the car is endless. Christmas never comes soon enough. Life drags along at a snail’s pace and never seems to go anywhere. As you get older, time seems to speed up. A semester is gone in the blink of an eye. Summer break is…

  • Feelings

    One key to creating a better life is to choose what you want to feel, and for how long you want to feel it. This means taking responsibility for what you feel. No more “He made me so mad” or “Don’t make me regret this.” The first time someone explained this to me was a…

  • The Path Forward

    This is not about the Pandemic (with a capital “p” because it’s been so significant in just about everyone’s life for the last year or so). I’ve been mired in the past the last few weeks. I’ve dreamed of horses and wished they were still in my life. It has made me sad and forced…

  • Writing

    Writing is, for the most part, a solitary endeavor. To a certain extent, one needs a quiet place with few distractions. For there are times when the ideas are flowing so fast that your fingers can barely keep up and to be disturbed would be to lose those ideas. And yet, no author can write…

  • EGBOK

    Everything’s Gonna’ Be Okay I lie awake at night thinking. Worrying? Wondering? I’ll go with “wondering.” It sounds a little less crazy. But the truth is, I’m obsessing about how we are going to fit our lives (and all our stuff) into the house we have purchased in Riverton, Wyoming. I would be better served…

  • Soap

    Bar soap is a great invention. It changed how we wash, when we wash and what we wash. But it’s also a nuisance in a way. What do you do with that little thin sliver of soap when it is mostly all used? Do you throw it away? Kind of wasteful really. Do you try…

  • Onions

    Cutting onions can be a bother. Sulfur compounds are released when you slice through them. They mix with the tears in your eyes to form an acid. More or less. The acid irritates your eyes even more. You close your eyes. You blink a lot. It only seems to make it worse. The more tears…

  • Productivity

    Life can sometimes seem to get in the way of living. If productivity is the measure by which you judge the worth of your day’s endeavors, then you are setting yourself up for failure. Because the simple truth is … Sometimes you just can’t.

  • Peaches

    There’s a point in the life of a free-stone peach where it is just ripe enough that the skin will pull off easily in one piece. You quarter the peach first and pull out the pit. You grab an end of the skin between your thumb and your paring knife. You gently and smoothly pull…