by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 12, 2015 | Parenting Small Children
One of the posts that’s always big on this blog is “Have We Forgotten to Be a Mommy”? It’s all about how things that were once normal practice for moms seem to have fallen by the wayside. I was looking at some of the more recent comments and it...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 15, 2015 | Parenting Teenagers, Sheila Snippets
I am a complete sap for tear jerker country music songs. And now that my kids have turned me on to Apple Music, I’m listening to a whole bunch more of them everyday! One of my favourites has always been Brad Paisley’s “Letter to Me”, where he writes a letter to...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 23, 2015 | Emotional Connection, Resolving Conflict
Why is it that anger in marriage is so dangerous? Maybe we need to learn to have the right kind of fight! For twelve years I wrote a weekly syndicated slice-of-life column for several newspapers. I published many of them on this blog, but recently I’ve found...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 28, 2015 | Faith
Do we spend so much time rushing we miss out on the beauty of everyday life? I’ve been contemplative this week. That happens around my birthday, and I’ve written some long pieces that share my heart about our culture. It’s tiring. And a few weeks ago...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jan 8, 2015 | Family
I have always believed that an optimistic attitude is more important than just about anything for success in life–spiritually, academically, relationally. And so as we begin this new year, I’d like to rerun this column I wrote back in 2005 about optimism...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 22, 2014 | Marriage, Sheila Snippets
Yesterday was my twenty-third anniversary. We were married at Christmas when I was 21 and he was 22. When I started writing my newspaper column twelve years ago, one of my first columns was about my anniversary. And so I thought I’d publish it here–about...