One of my favorite lessons my mom taught me back when I was at the age where I was routinely fighting, week after week, to be in the cool kids club and not the outcast club (and it certainly did change from week to week back then!) was one particular day when my mom asked…
These days, it's awfully easy to fall victim to the fear, uncertainty and doubt that floods our airwaves and social media feeds about a virus 24/7. We want to just "do something" but most of us are under stay at home orders, so options are limited. It appears from my glances at my timelines this…
Hey, whatever happened to waitin' your turnDoing it all by hand,'Cause when everything is handed to youIt's only worth as much as the time put inIt all just seemed so good the way we had itBack before everything became automatic As we enter into our third week of self-isolation, sheltering in place, social distancing, whatever…
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, that one should preserve it.Anais Nin Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay Much has been, is being, and will be written about what is currently happening in our world right now. If you're looking for answers from me, I'm fresh out. But I have been…
It doesn't seem like that long ago...in fact, for me it was in a professional development class I took only a week or so ago...when we were talking about how anyone under the age of twenty today was not born when we endured the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When we talk about things…
Immunize (verb) im-yuh-nahyz, ih-myoo-nahyz to make immuneto render harmless or ineffective, to neutralizelaw: to grant immunity (as to a witness) There is a powerful scene in the HBO series John Adams where Adams' wife, Abigail, sees the 1775 smallpox epidemic wreaking havoc in her community. Her husband was away serving in the Continental Congress and…
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. Billy Graham It's days like today that I am so grateful to have been raised by people who had been guided by their faith…
The winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election will not be a woman. (Well, unless Tulsi Gabbard has a heck of a surge, I suppose.) I was offline most of the day in a meeting, but once I got to the airport I had time to review what had happened in the news today. Elizabeth…
A gift of age and life experience is the opportunity to view things in the fullness of time. Within a year of my college graduation, the Challenger blew up and fell out of the sky and the oil business in Houston sank like a stone. It was a heartache for the city I had chosen…
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