
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 Waking Up?
Waking Up Macrina Wiederkehr is a writers whose writing inspires me to practice the art of waking up. Though everyone needs a good night’s sleep, everyone also needs to practice waking up. I’m an eager and early riser. Though I like going to sleep, I like waking up and starting a new day too. My…
Why Bother Starting Out?
Starting Out Every blog I write begins with an idea in my head and a blank page. Then, the abstract and intangible become words that create sentences and the sentences become paragraphs and finally, the blank page is filled with a concrete and complete concept. Blogging was not my idea, rather a suggestion made to…
Why Bother Following Through?
Follow Through I know that the action of following through is important. For example, when free throwing at the free throw line in basketball, a player needs to carry out the shot even after the ball has left their hand. The follow through involves leaving the arms extended and the wrists slightly bent. Following through…