Lucille's Blog
Counting Our Blessings
This year seems to have jumped into a jet and disappeared. At times, it is hard to believe we are in the holiday season already and will soon be welcoming in 2025. We’ve survived the election, a faltering economy, and a host of worldwide challenges, including...
Counting Our Blessings
This year seems to have jumped into a jet and disappeared. At times, it is hard to believe we are in the holiday season already and will soon be welcoming in 2025. We’ve survived the election, a faltering economy, and a host of worldwide challenges, including...
Fun Activities at Home for Kids
Create and keep a fun notebook along with a kit of whatnots (a hodgepodge of materials) for when school is canceled or parents and children are stuck at home. Add activities, play-doh, colored pencils, etc. to the kit as you stumble across them daily. Then voila! Pull...
Fun Activities at Home for Kids
Create and keep a fun notebook along with a kit of whatnots (a hodgepodge of materials) for when school is canceled or parents and children are stuck at home. Add activities, play-doh, colored pencils, etc. to the kit as you stumble across them daily. Then voila! Pull...
Navigating Grief
“I’m turning in my resignation,” I said peering away from the chaplain in the medical center. She answered me with a simple, “Why?” “I could barely keep from crying myself,” I confessed. After several weeks of training at a psychoanalysis institute in downtown...
Navigating Grief
“I’m turning in my resignation,” I said peering away from the chaplain in the medical center. She answered me with a simple, “Why?” “I could barely keep from crying myself,” I confessed. After several weeks of training at a psychoanalysis institute in downtown...
Creative Children
“Creativity takes courage.”- Henri Matisse “Dance is for everybody. It’s a way to express yourself, to tell a story.”- Alvin Ailey “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”- Maya Angelou 5-year-old Sage participating in an American...
Creative Children
“Creativity takes courage.”- Henri Matisse “Dance is for everybody. It’s a way to express yourself, to tell a story.”- Alvin Ailey “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”- Maya Angelou 5-year-old Sage participating in an American...
Choose Courage
If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more...
Choose Courage
If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more...
Father’s Day 2024
My world took a nosedive on September 15, 2001, when my dad died. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. I was a daddy's girl; I look like him and had a mole on my right hand in the same place he had one. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. Psychologist and author...
Father’s Day 2024
My world took a nosedive on September 15, 2001, when my dad died. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. I was a daddy's girl; I look like him and had a mole on my right hand in the same place he had one. Nothing can prepare you for the grief. Psychologist and author...
Mother’s Day 2024
Happy Mother’s Day, All. If you’re a mother, grandmother, daughter, or adoptive mom, in a few days, it will be time to honor you. But honoring mothers isn’t designated to a certain day, but something to do on an ongoing basis with a phone call, a small gift, an act of...
Mother’s Day 2024
Happy Mother’s Day, All. If you’re a mother, grandmother, daughter, or adoptive mom, in a few days, it will be time to honor you. But honoring mothers isn’t designated to a certain day, but something to do on an ongoing basis with a phone call, a small gift, an act of...
SAY HER NAME
I remember watching the movie Australia. One thing that stood out was that when someone died you were forbidden to say their name. Two months ago, my sister died, and I’ve had to consider that life isn’t permanent. I’ve learned the ways in which people grieve. I am a...
SAY HER NAME
I remember watching the movie Australia. One thing that stood out was that when someone died you were forbidden to say their name. Two months ago, my sister died, and I’ve had to consider that life isn’t permanent. I’ve learned the ways in which people grieve. I am a...
MISSING YOU
By Lucille U. Freeman When I heard Anthony Brown and Group Therapy's song Worth, I was sitting at my 57 year-old sister's funeral, who had lost her battle to breast cancer. The grief inside me turned into muffled sobs, as I listened to the music and the words settled...
MISSING YOU
By Lucille U. Freeman When I heard Anthony Brown and Group Therapy's song Worth, I was sitting at my 57 year-old sister's funeral, who had lost her battle to breast cancer. The grief inside me turned into muffled sobs, as I listened to the music and the words settled...
BEING CARRIED
By Lucille U. Freeman Footprints in the sand…why were there only one set of footprints in some of the roughest times of my life. That’s when I carried you. When my Mom died, when my sister died… I needed to be carried. I’m sure there were only one set of footprints. I...