In the hospital they always ask “On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst pain you can imagine, what would you rate your pain right now?” What are they talking about? Pain is relative! I mean what do you compare it to? A “10″ to me probably isn’t a “10″ to [...]
I carry a little notebook with me for jotting down “profound” things I come across. I don’t remember where I found this quote from Dee Hock, founder of VISA International: “You learn nothing from your success except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize [...]
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Technorati Tags: Raising Grandchildren More and more I run into grandparents who for one reason or another, or many reasons combined, are raising their grandchildren. For the year and a half that has been my husband and I. Talk about a volley of emotions! For almost 16 years we have been Grandpa and Grandma and [...]
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I talked to Mom on the phone today. She is ninety-one and lives with my brother about 4 hours away and he calls me to talk to her when she?s having an especially bad time or needs to be distracted for a while. She has Alzheimer’s Disease and is in the terrible stage of being [...]
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I love the lyrics from Bye Bye Birdie’ … “Put on a Happy Face”. “Gray skies are gonna clear up. Put on a happy faceBrush off the clouds and cheer up. Put on a happy faceTake off the gloomy mask of tragedy. It’s not your style.You’ll look so good that you’ll be glad ya decided [...]
This is actually something I learned March 24, 2006. It is graduating from my journal to my blog because it introduces you to two clearly brilliant children. It is such a good thing that Chloe (oh excuse me, she has asked to be called Colenso) and Steele were to walk to my house from school [...]
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It is pretty amazing to me that I not only know the word blog, I also know the definition … and I have one! I wouldn’t consider myself computer literate, nor would I consider myself computer illiterate but if I were to tell most of my friends that I have a blog they would probably [...]
