Author: Connie Perez

For sticky notes that warm your heart. In our home, these hidden sticky notes especially turn up after “picadillo night.”  😉 Leave a sticky note today, friends and family, and warm a heart. Sometimes it is the smallest gestures that make life bearable. For my flock, and sticky notes, I am eternally grateful. What are…

Good morning, boys and girls! Let’s lighten up the mood, shall we? If you could teleport to the past on three different occasions, which moments would you choose, and why? Go ahead, put on your thinking cap. And remember, we’re trying to lighten up the mood here. Me? I’d be tempted to jump back to…

“Nada de eso importa,” she said to me one day while I whined to her about some drama going on in my life. None of that matters, my sister told me. She knew. Her days were counted as she fought for her life, and she understood more than ever what mattered. I know it’s nature…

More and more, lately, I find myself saying “What the #%&@?!” Seems like every week I learn of someone I know whose life all of a sudden was thrown into a wolf den upon learning they weren’t healthy anymore. This and that disease. Who needs a war? What’s going on? Really. Is it what’s in…

I try not to complain much, especially now during the state of the world. Case in point, Tuesday night, when I got cutesy with Spam for dinner (don’t ask…and no, we’re not preppers). It turned out as good as a spam dinner can. Anyway, after consuming it, my thoughts went into complaining mode, but, like…

Yesterday brought us the beginning of Lent – – Shake-up time for those of us who observe this holy season. And boy do we need it. During the next few weeks we will intentionally put ourselves even more in tune with God. And that can only be a good thing. As we do, I pray He…

My mother taught me to pray. During our time in Spain, we once lived in a basement apartment that was dark and spooky, and I often heard noises at night and couldn’t sleep. Didn’t help that my brother would tell me creepy stories about some dude he saw every night sitting in the rocking chair…

Frustrated with people and the world lately? 🙋🏻‍♀️ I get you. Everyone’s on edge and it’s taking more patience than usual to get through each day. I may, and let me emphasize “may,” have something to help your mindset. It helps mine: “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the…

As I often heard growing up: “¡Viento en popa y a toda vela!” (Wind in the stern and at full sail). My father, especially, lived like that, full steam ahead. No matter what was on his plate, if life brought his way something that could potentially impact our lives positively, he would take it on….

If only I could wiggle my nose like Samanta Stevens…or blink like Jeannie…and poof! make things happen. Those two ladies had awesome superpowers. Wiggle and the price of gas at the pump would magically drop, blink and peace would reign on Earth, wiggle and everyone would be super healthy…and on and on. If only.  But.Not.Happening….