Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
It does not matter whether one is at the giving or receiving end of love just as long as one is part of the… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning.… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide… — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux Copy Share Image
