Deb and daughter Cricket at Canadian Niagara Falls The masculine sex has finally found their answer to the female’s long-time, cover-all-sins catch phrase, “Bless her little heart.” It’s long been amusing to me how women – especially southern gals – can say anything they want about someone, no matter how catty, scathing, or gossipy, and ...
Archives for January 2013
Rising Above Haves and Have-Nots
I felt my face prickle with heat but this time it wasn’t a hot flash. It was the humiliating realization that I was a Have-Not in this particular place and time and there was nothing I could do to change that. We all know they exist: the Haves and the Have-Nots. First there are the ...
Shedding the Snakeskin
You know, now that I’m past that half-century mark in age, I wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and realize that the new me is now the old me. Sigh. I guess this thought crystallized last Saturday when I arrived at my first Senior tennis match of the season. Yes, Senior. Senior. ...
Celebrating the New Year
While reading Michael Hyatt’s “Intentional Leadership” blog post this week (if you don’t subscribe, you really should!), I was skewered by a life specific principle Michael quoted from his mentor, best-selling author Robert D. Smith. It went like this: “Eat dessert first. Learn to celebrate life and then live out of that celebration.” I think ...