 Photo credit: dicktay2000 Is the sun shining where you are?
In other words, this cliché tells us: Continue reading » Haymaking Anyone? Photo credit: soukup
Do you work like a dog? When we use that phrase, we often mean that we’re working really, really hard… and not necessarily feeling good about it. Have you ever watched a dog work? It truly is a sight to behold. Dogs work with such dedication and focus that they often put us to shame. Watch any service dog. Their focus is on the person that they are serving. They don’t get bored. There’s never a thought that the person isn’t good enough for them. They serve with their whole hearts. Some dogs even volunteer. They go to Continue reading » Working Like a Dog Photo credit: faungg Life’s been all work and no play lately, you say?
Geez, three, count ’em THREE posts already from me about New Year’s resolutions – you’d think I was stukkk in resolution mode! But more than likely I’m stuck in feeling that, no matter how busy I am, no matter how much I do, “it’s just not enough”. I get to the end of the day and I make a list of what I did because, without it, I’m feeln’ like Continue reading » Stukkk in Resolutions Photo credit: moriza
In a recent blog post, Terry Hershey, inspirational speaker, humorist and author, wrote, “Someone very wise once said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. This is all heart-warming and reassuring. Until you realize that no one ever tells you anything about the second step.” Lately that seems very true to me. Often as we are setting out for a new destination, we plan our journey; but like a battle, the plan doesn’t survive the first encounter with reality. When I first started working in Corporate America, I had two reactions: one – I couldn’t believe that I had actually set a goal and achieved it and; two – I couldn’t understand why I was so depressed. Sure, I expected that I would graduate from college – after all, I’d graduated from grammar school and high school. College wasn’t that different. What I never really believed would happen is Continue reading » Where To From Here?? Photo credit: Talent
I grew up in Chicago. My parents wanted to live in a warm climate – Chicago can be a bit cold, and gray and wet and smoggy. When it’s not cold and gray and wet and smoggy, it’s hot and sunny and humid and smoggy. Both of my parents had grown up in Chicago and they both longed for a cleaner, more hospitable place to live. Since we couldn’t live anywhere else, every summer we took a three week driving vacation to the Left Coast – though back then it was just the west coast. My parents must have been nuts: three weeks in a car with three little kids. OY! To make sure that we all returned home in one piece and NOT in a casket, Mom made sure that we had lots of toys to entertain us during the 8-10 hour days as we went across Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Because she also believed that our education shouldn’t stop during the summer, she also brought library books for us to read at night. After all, everyone knows you get sick if you Continue reading » Scenic Outlook Ahead |
 Take a short break and consider the following: “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” John Ruskin 
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