Aunt Carrie was our family’s eternal optimist. She always seemed to see the best in everyone. We affectionately accused her of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses.
One evening we took Aunt Carrie with us to one of our prison Bible studies. As we were leaving the facility Aunt Carrie shook her finger and informed the guard, “Those are all good boys in there; every one of them!”
Could it be that we find ourselves sometimes trickling, dripping, plopping, swishing, rushing, gurgling, pushing, crashing, & even gushing at times? I would say so. Anything that moves is said to have kinetic energy and potential energy is any kind of energy that is stored. I often wonder how much potential energy we as women store.
Sometimes it amazes me how many people – men and women –assume that historically women have always been financially incompetent …Read the Rest
How many times have you heard, “You must have a written business plan”? Well forget that…here are some new ways to look at things:
Why fall down if you don’t have to? We’ve all heard about learning from our mistakes, how about we try to avoid mistakes by learning from each other?
Hobbies are useful for stress relief and they also present great opportunities for family time if you can find something of interest to more than one person in the household.
Everything we use today was a product of someone’s imagination before it came into being. Your imagination is just as good as the next person’s so put it to use.
Today’s workplace is changing. Record unemployment has created some unlikely entrepreneurs. Not only has the profile of the average entrepreneur changed but so has the tools and environment required to start your own business.
The roses are blooming and I stand amazed once more in my front yard looking at the answer to my temporary insanity. Eight years ago, faced with way too much leisure time on my hands after the death of my husband, as well as a rather steep front yard which was now all mine to maintain, I opted to do something different. Rather than mow, I started digging up grass – with a hand pick because my front yard is just one step above solid baked clay.
Unfortunately, we all get attacked by self-pity once in awhile and I want to share a great way to beat it.
