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 Noticing Your Close Encounters?
Encounters that we have with others, good or bad, have a way of changing the quality of our lives. Therefore, developing our discernment with regards to who and what we allow into our lives is important because whoever and whatever we let influence us, shapes our present as well our future. Gaining…
Why Bother Ending Our Victim Thinking?
As a youngster, I used to frequent the Saturday afternoon shows at the theater with a girlfriend. We both loved watching the latest vampire movies. There was just enough scare in them to make us feel frightened and just enough corniness in them to make us both laugh while walking all the way back home. …
Why Bother Living in the Moment?
Back in the 1970s, when I was a teenager, I’d listen to the radio while driving Mom’s Volkswagen around town running errands for her. There were more than a few songs I liked singing along to: “Time Keeps on Slippin into the Future,” by Steve Miller, “I Got No Time,” by the Guess Who, and…