Meet the Author
Writer Terese Luikens contributes articles for Mother Earth News, The Secret Place, Decision Magazine, The Upper Room, Hearts at Home, and the Epoch Times and publishes her own blog, Why Bother? A schoolteacher and a yoga instructor, Terese lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, with her husband and enjoys being mother to three grown sons and grandmother to her much-loved grandchildren.
Latest Blog Posts
Why Bother Managing Opinions?
Everyone has an opinion about something and somebody. But, opinions are not a fact. Instead, an opinion is a speculation, a sentiment, impression, or assumption that seems probable, but cannot be demonstrated with fact. Because everyone has their own judgment, notion or perception about everything and everybody, it is up to us to decide whose…
Why Bother Being Footloose and Fancy Free?
Young children have a sense of being footloose and fancy free. They know nothing of the dangers of life, know nothing about worry, and do not have a fear of things such as the natural force of gravity. Unrestrained Our youngest son was the one who refused the limits of…
Why Bother to Unburden Ourselves?
I like keeping my life simple, uncomplicated and unencumbered. I don’t clutter my house with knick-knacks, I don’t keep ill-fitting clothes hanging in my closet, and I am selective to what I say “yes” to; what I really want to do, instead of what others think I ought to do. My life has not always…