Author: <span>Beth Hendrickson</span>

Last summer, I balked when it came time to slather up my seven month old daughter’s body with sunscreen.  That brand new baby skin was just too brand new to…

Kids and Treasures

“Happiness is different from pleasure.  Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”  – George Bernard Shaw I find this quotation recorded in teenage girl bubble letters…

Thoughts and Musings

Baskets of spices arrayed in rich, rainbow tones.  Thick tubes of sausages dangling from umbrella rafters.  Rattan baskets pressed between arm and hip, bulging with selected produce.  Olive oil vats…

Wanderings and Travel

Kids and Treasures

I think of myself as an urbanite.  My earliest memories include frying an egg on the miraged surface of a Phoenix sidewalk, needing a new Care Bear from the neighborhood…

Thoughts and Musings

Wanderings and Travel