Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Oct 14, 2009, 8:23 am
1. From now until November 1st, I will be on a brief sabbatical from SisterWisdom (and most other writing online). You might have noticed there haven't been many updates or new articles lately any...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Sep 3, 2009, 8:33 am
GRACE: seemingly effortless beauty of movement, form, or proportion. ...A sense of fitness or propriety. ...Good will, mercy, clemency. ...A temporary immunity or exemption; reprieve. ...Divine love ...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Sep 2, 2009, 8:32 am
Yesterday morning, Robbie slid off the edge of my bed, trying to climb in. He looked up at me and said, "Sowwy!" A little later, he stumbled over the threshold: "Sowwy!" After church he was playing an...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 27, 2009, 9:07 am
I've talked about having house rules before; having a short list of them helps us Moms to maintain consistency because it gives us a concrete standard. But let's look at it just a bit more, b...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 26, 2009, 9:06 am
...it is upon the mothers of the present that the future depends... because it is the mothers who have the sole direction of the children's early, most impressible years. ...And they up as their p...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 15, 2009, 7:59 am
Notes from a sermon by Dr. David Bailey titled How To Deal With Difficult People: Don't expect the person to change. Avoid retaliation.Don't take get-even actions and words. Go the opposite...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 14, 2009, 7:31 am
"The training of children is no mere side-issue; it is the main business of those of us who are parents." I realized today that the reason I most often get frustrated with my children is that I am fr...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 13, 2009, 7:08 am
73. Deliverance for me is not in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colors and fragrance, f...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 12, 2009, 7:00 am
The world is full of too many possibilities. We can never grasp them all. We are inadequate for everything but able still to conquer more than we think. We must let go of paralysis, fear, anxiety, sel...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 2, 2009, 6:30 am
Day in, day out. You wake up, you see him. You go to bed, you kiss him. You pick up his socks. You make his dinner. You take care of his children. You know his favorites, his jokes, his shirt size,...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Aug 1, 2009, 6:24 am

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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Jul 31, 2009, 9:28 am
Morning by Frank O'Hara notes. 1. the last line of each stanza is often a mid-sentence break, which continues in the stanza below. insert mental punctuation where it gets confusing. for example...
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Annie Mueller posted an article on SisterWisdom: Life Improvement for the Open-Minded - Jul 24, 2009, 8:47 pm
A little preview of the upcoming "How to Teach High School Literature" workshop. This is how the typical high school English course goes: the student receives a fat survey textbook covering American...
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