Posted in Rants, Reflections on Jan 26th, 2010
The following post has been going around Facebook over the past couple of days, and it is wrong on so many levels that I hardly know where to begin.
Shame on you America: the only country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed without eating, elderly going without medical needs & mentally ill [...]
Posted in Friends, Inspirational, Reflections on Oct 25th, 2008
It catches me by surprise sometimes, the reflections inspired from teaching my daughter’s Sunday School class. Last weekend, the topic was “friendship,” and we studied from the biblical example of David and Jonathan. It got me thinking…what is friendship, exactly? And what is the difference between having friends and being a friend?
Merriam-Webster defines friend as [...]
Posted in Reflections on Jul 25th, 2008
20 years is a long time to lay claim to a label, especially one that describes who you were far more accurately than who you’ve become.
In my case it is a label that was correctly bestowed on me during my senior year of high school, when I was voted “Most Shy.” Back then, that’s exactly [...]
Posted in Reflections on Jan 22nd, 2008
2007 was a very good year. What do I have to be so thankful for, you may ask? Why, it was all chronicled right here in this very blog.
First, there was the big executive promotion in January.
February saw most of the miraculous series of events that led to the improbable sale of our “in need [...]
Posted in Favorites, Reflections on Sep 23rd, 2007
I got a letter today from my alma mater university, and I’m sure it had quite the opposite effect on me from what was intended. The 5-page letter sings the praises of the current freshman class, the class of 2011. There’s a lot to be proud of in this class, and I’m glad to see [...]
Posted in Reflections on Aug 9th, 2007
Back in the day when I was a newbie college graduate, carefree and unemployed, poised to shortly begin graduate study in the field that would launch my career, I spent a summer immersed in an intensive Spanish language program at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
While there, I befriended another American in the program who was [...]
Posted in Family, Reflections on May 30th, 2007
Today, a friend paid me a very nice compliment. She said I was the best working mom she’s ever known, with a job that entails a high degree of responsibility while also coordinating the busy schedules of two well-rounded, happy kids, and that I manage to do it all cheerfully and without ever having bags [...]
Posted in Reflections on Apr 16th, 2007
For longer than I care to admit, I’ve been feeling a call to donate my time in some type of community service capacity—a quiet but persistent voice telling me that with all the rich blessings in my life, I’m supposed to be giving something back. Rather than taking action, however, I have hemmed and hawed [...]
Posted in Home Sweet Home, Reflections on Apr 11th, 2007
Ah, this is the good life. Here I sit on the back patio at dusk, enjoying the balmy evening air of a Florida spring, watching a pair of birds court each other at the feeder hanging just outside. The birds go unnoticed by the cat, who wanders aimlessly on the cool concrete as if searching [...]
Posted in Favorites, Memories, Reflections on Feb 4th, 2007
Let’s be perfectly clear about one thing. Daddy never actually took the Mustang away; rather, he was the one who bought it for me. A brand-spanking new 1986 white Mustang convertible with a sporty red interior. License plate number AXC 76P. (It’s amazing, the trivial things the brain chooses to remember.) I wasn’t quite yet [...]
