Kim Griffin's Blog

Valentine’s Day The day of mushy gushy love and ooey gooey chocolate. The day that rose prices rise about 200%. The day of $4 cards and huge expressions of love. Don’t get me wrong.  I’m all about love.  I love love. Ooey gooey?  Mushy gushy? Spend a ton of money, love? I’m not all about that. The love that I’m about is the daily expression in… read more

I was going to put something funny on my blog today just to lighten things up a little bit, but then I ran across this story. Of course, Ellen is funny and she says some funny things in the video (because, well, she’s Ellen), but she’s talking about something serious. Seriously ridiculous, that is! I love Ellen ~ she’s hilarious and she’s great and I… read more

Tons of words to choose from in the English language.  None affect me more than the word Skinny I hate the word: skinny It feels derogatory. Skinny takes me back to high school and the never ending quest to be the perfect form. Skinny reminds me of a close friend who nearly killed herself with starvation in that quest. So, when Bethenny Frankel came out… read more

Last week, I talked about the new show on Fox ~ Touch ~ which is centered around a boy who sees the world as numbers and patterns.  The show mentions the Red String story, but it mainly talks about how these patterns in the universe are based on the Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Ratio. Fibonacci was a mathematician who lived in the 12th century.  He wrote a book called… read more

For the scrapbooking challenged… For the organized impaired… For the mommy brained… For the pack rat… For me… Chaos is beautiful! My kids and I have been having a lot of fun with our smashbooks.  Have you heard of them?  How do you keep those fleeting memories? I’d love to hear about it! read more