Livvie B turns 4 today.

A future MPowered Woman has taken one more step toward that title with her 4th birthday today. My first daughter, Olivia/Livvie B. is growing up fast and I cherish every moment I have with her. Livvie is already a strong young lady and I see her full strength when she puts her nose to mine, stares directly into my eyes and asks me for a jelly bean.

Happy Birthday to "Hair Girl" the greatest MPowered Super Hero that ever prettied up the world.


The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, "Daddy, I need to ask you something," he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ~Garrison Keillor