I say yes to friends. Yes to fun. Yes to family. Pink Hair.... Yes to travel, adventure, creativity, dogs, cats, snow..... Sisters with red hair. New profit centers. Getting rid of the clutter. Good books, new ideas, New recipes, Colorful restaurants, Dinners with friends. Peace. Brothers...... And so, sooo much more. Time to [...]
I hadn't put it together until just this evening, but my father, Bob Banta, (who dubbed me Barbara Suzanne Banta) was a BB as well. Happy Birthday to my father, Bob Banta. He died some time ago and honestly, I feel a greater bond with him since his death than perhaps when he was of [...]
Love Among the Memories I found myself this past weekend in the lush surrounds of Lancaster, PA, Lititz to be exact, home of Wilbur Chocolate and Linden Hall, now the oldest girl’s school in America, founded in 1747, also my former high school. I arrived on no more beautiful day than I can ever remember. [...]
simply to breathe... breathe, breathe, and trust... trust that somewhere, somehow, I am, (we are), supremely loved, taken care of and.... that equanimity is mine...ours... yours. And so it is. It just is. BB Webb
I've felt a bit alien in my own skin and frankly in the world in which I live of late, astonished by what I perceive as the barren-ness of some, (I'll call them), 'belief systems' I've encountered recently, evidenced by the people who demonstrate those belief systems by their actions. I'm not judging them, though [...]
A little over 10 years ago I found myself in the new role of wife and step mom. Both proved to be challenging roles for me though I certainly gave it my ALL. The lessons learned were worth their weight in marbles, heavy, gold gilded marbles. I am grateful for ALL my life experiences. I'm [...]
I created a small children's theatre troupe with some pals in Vermont during my college days, wonderful and talented rapscillions were they. Sweet, wry, musical Tom sadly died of AIDS over a decade or more ago, David I saw 12 years ago and is in New York, creating festive Ukrainian Gypsy Shows off Broadway, Paul [...]
I have something I'm wrangling with today...the notion of how to really love well. I was thinking today about how mothers or fathers, husbands, wives, in an effort to 'take care of' each other, children, often love 'too well' or really not well at all when they steal the opportunity for another to find their [...]