by MO VEAR | Dec 2, 2016 | Alcoholism, Blog, Family, Friends, Kids, Life Lessons, Motherhood, Recovery, Teaching, The more serious..., You Are Not Alone
I know of a man that died recently. He was three months shy of turning one-hundred and one. He was an alcoholic. Born in 1915 after the advent of the first world war, he lived through the Depression, the second world war, and the terrorists’ attacks on September...
by MO VEAR | Feb 3, 2017 | Best Of, Blog, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, Hope, I AM, Indiana Dunes, Kids, Life Lessons, Love
Have you ever seen the television movie, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer? I used to watch it every Christmas as a kid and every Christmas I bawled my eyes out. I hate when Rudolph gets ousted from the reindeer games and I hurt for the misfit toys and Hermey the Elf who...
by MO VEAR | May 12, 2017 | Best Of, Blog, Faith, Family, Hope, Kids, Kindness, Life Lessons, Love, Motherhood, Parents Dying, Prayer, Teaching, Truth
My Mom was always up for playing a game and if there wasn’t a game to play, she would make one up – especially when I was little, and especially if it helped her to occupy my time. We played one game every week that was a cross between Tic-Tac-Toe and...
by MO VEAR | May 5, 2017 | Best Of, Blog, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, High School, Hope, Kids, Kindness, Life Lessons, Love, Motherhood, Truth
I’m doing a duathlon in June, but the last time I ran was at last year’s duathlon. So this past Saturday, I committed to getting some miles in. I texted my Mom-Friend and told her I was on my way over: “Can you do CPR because I’m running to...
by MO VEAR | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Friends, Hope, I AM, Kids, Life Lessons, Love, Motherhood, Parents Dying, Truth
The temperature in the hotel room was seventy degrees. A little cool for me, but I had on my lovely flannel pajamas and matching winter hat, plus, I turned up the thermostat a couple notches when my husband, Andy, and my two boys, Danny and Mark, left for the pool. It...
by MO VEAR | Feb 10, 2017 | Birthdays, Blog, Family, Friends, Hope, Kids, Kindness, Life Lessons, Love
Do birthday cards get meaner as we get older or do we get meaner because we get old? It’s a strange phenomenon. I got a card last week that said: “I’ve decided to do something special for your birthday, but it doesn’t include you.”...
