A Drawer Full of Dreams By Maile Sundquist My son has entered the stage where he’s catching onto the fact that there is a big, crazy world going on around him. I’ve noticed lately during feedings that he’ll suck for a moment then pop off my breast to flash me an adorably gummy grin then […]
I couldn’t help myself. LOL! Still have a couple more to add. When I was 12 I wanted to be a Disney animator, but when I was 14 I spent the whole Summer in front of the TV, tape recorder in hand, memorizing the songs and female lead dialogue to The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and […]
Practicing Gratitude By Maile Sundquist Although the average person has as much of a chance of having a good day as a bad one, the majority of us seem to go through life sullen, defeated, weary, tired, fearful, and depressed. Life is an ever-changing thing, full of complex circumstances, relationships, points of views, belief systems, […]
In His Arms is Home By Maile Sundquist It’s not often in life that you meet someone whose worldview, interests, and passions align so perfectly with yours. Someone who makes you laugh, is your sounding board and rock, is intelligent, talented, ingenuous, sensitive, not afraid to admit he loves Hello Kitty, and sexy to boot. […]
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The Death of Imagination (Nurturing Imagination in the Digital Age) By Maile Sundquist Although I grew up in the ’80s with the emergence of the PC, my family never had a lot of money and I didn’t obtain my first computer until I was 20. It wasn’t until I went to college seven years later […]
The Double Edged Sword of Perfectionism By Maile Sundquist Do you suffer from the incessant need to have your lipstick match your dog’s collar, straighten the pig-tails of a stranger’s child, trim your lawn with nail scissors, or spit shine your SUV? Then you’re not alone. Perfectionism plagues one in five people (not a real […]
Ohana By Maile Sundquist My heart is both heavy and full tonight. I recently lost two uncles – the last of my father’s four siblings – making it the end of a generation on that side of my family. My father passed in 1990 of cancer and having the last of his siblings pass has […]
More Time, More Money, More Meaning: Living Simply to Simply Live By Maile Sundquist Aloha Stars, I read a Facebook post the other day by a friend who was reflecting on an article in the New York Times which tells the story of a few Stanford students who, although accomplished, buckled under the pressures of […]
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