I’ve said this before–so often in fact that I cringe when I hear these words come out of my yap yet again– but I love my job. I learn so…
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“I’d like two six-minute hard-boiled eggs,” I said, enunciating each word carefully. The young man who had assisted me with the very same order the day before nodded, then darted…
I was browsing LinkedIn this morning when I came across a Steve Chandler quote. (If you don’t know Steve, you really should.) It went something like this: Discipline has nothing…
A post I wrote 7 years ago. When I was eleven, my mother signed me up for a weight loss class. Having battled the bulge for years on end, she…
This is a guest post by Walt Hampton. A beautiful example of how one book can alter the course of a life. It had been a warm summer day in…
I don’t know. I’m bringing this back out of mothballs simply because I need the reminder. BTW, for those who have expressed disgust because I choose to write about my…
This is a post from way back when. I read it a couple of times to see if I still felt the same way. I hesitated to re-post this in…
A long time ago, before I had children, my husband took a second wife. We were living in Washington, D.C., not the Islamic Republic of Iran, and I had nothing…
I’m going to say something that scares the crap out of me. Something that could draw the evil eye and smote me like Lot’s wife, the chick who turned to…
