This week we went to a business breakfast meeting. It is held weekly with other business people who work together to promote each other’s work. It is like having 27 other people networking for you. It is a very good idea, don’t you think? I had all these grandiose ideas on how I’d promote my …
SMART GIRL
Today I walked into my employer’s office. He was in a discussion with another attorney. I handed him identical letters to sign. Both needed to be mailed, one certified and the other standard mail. He needed to sign both. No copies allowed. “How did you know that Pam?” “She’s such a smart girl!” “Wow.” “You’re …
She Called
My son was hurt. Seriously. After the ambulance ride, after the air-vac, after the surgery, after the discovery of his broken back, after his brace fitting, before he recouped In our home, before getting the first of many bills and just as reality of this life altering experience began to penetrate our daily moments, she …
Still Blogging
I haven’t stopped blogging. I write. I read. I delete. Its therapeutic. I can paraphrase. Yea…. Deleted again. I am thinking of creating a blog where no one knows it’s me and I can say whatever I want and not feel bad or wrong or worried about being bad or wrong or worried. Would you …
Nothing Ever Gets Done
A conversation – “Do you want to go? Really?” – “No. I feel like I need to.” – “Maybe you could start doing what you really want to do.” – “If everyone did what they wanted to do, nothing would ever get done.” Really. I think Thomas Edison would disagree. “I never did a days …
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO OLD
Are there pictures of me canoeing 4 miles up river while herding 45 teen-agers in 22 canoes? Nope. But I have sun burned knees and a very shiny red nose! Use your imagination. Are there pictures of all of us hauling said canoes half a mile up a steep mountain on our shoulders while walking …
Not the Dowager Part
‘One day, a dowager of the breed that mistake impertinence for wit took a swipe at him.’ Victor Hugo from Les Misérables I love that line. ‘of the breed that mistake impertinence for wit’. Who hasn’t been of that breed at one youthful or drunken or weak moment in their life? (Not the Dowager part, …
Tigger Day
Starting the drive to work a tad late and catching every red light on Val Vista started to define my day. At Main Street I was so close to getting the green! Heading toward University the Eeyore in me started to surface. “I can tell what kind of day this is going to be!” I …
A Test – Oh NO!
I have created a test. Take it or not. It’s all up to you. 1. After emptying your grocery cart in the store parking lot do you a. Take it back inside the store so the bag boy won’t have to bother with doing his job. b. Leave it in front of your vehicle so …