A mighty banyan tree – love ’em! I rushed into the women’s restroom at the Plant City Strawberry Festival last year with five minutes to spare before my girlhood swoon faves, Air Supply (now grandfathers with gray hair but still singing just as swooningly), were to go onstage. I noticed right away that this restroom ...
I Want to be Like Her When I Grow Up
Okay, so it’s a week after Valentine’s Day, but love never goes out of style, right? I just had to share with you this awesome story I ran across about a 108-year-old lady who really rocked. It ties in well to the chapter in my new book, Fear, Faith, and a Fistful of Chocolate, about ...
Top 10 Fears Women Face (part 2)
Photograph by Marian Crawford *Be sure to scroll down and read the first part of this post if you haven’t already. The top ten fears listed in my book Fear, Faith, and a Fistful of Chocolate are based on a survey I conducted of 500 women between the ages of 18 and 80. Okay, got ...
Top 10 Fears Women Face (part 1)
In honor of the recent release of my new book, Fear, Faith, and a Fistful of Chocolate, for the next few months I’ll be interspersing posts based on excerpts from the book. I’d love to hear your feedback! Here goes … In my travels as a speaker, I’ve encountered countless women like me who have ...
Just sayin’…
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 ...
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 ...
The Candy that Says it All
Earlier this month, as I was getting in the spirit of celebrating the birth of the Christ child, I bought a dozen candy canes to hang upon my snowman decoration standing with his little wooden arms outstretched for such a festive purpose. I was surprised, upon inspection of the candy cane box, to learn the ...
Pass the Iguana Repellant
Does Deb look as scared as she feels? As I climbed the six steps to the stage that Saturday in December, my hand shook as I reached for the handrail and prayed I wouldn’t stumble over my unaccustomed high heels and go sprawling. I was about to speak to 400 hot-tea-and-scone-satiated women who had paid ...