Back to School Blues

We all hear about the high cost of education these days and this month I saw it first hand.  I helped my husband at the community college off-campus bookstore that we own on the first few days of the semester.  I don’t get too involved, but those early days we need all hands on deck.…

Pink Slime Filter

This morning’s paper had an article about the uprising over ammonia-treated pink slime and the fact that it’s on the menu in many of our nation’s schools. The pile of tiny pink sticks of pseudo-beef filler in the accompanying photo did nothing to quell the uneasy feeling in my gut as I read the article.…

Breaking Bad

This morning I was trying to figure out how I would confess to breaking my string of “sort of weekly” blogs. You may not have noticed (although I hope you did) that you haven’t heard anything from me for awhile. In fact, I think this is the longest stretch I have gone.…

Chapter Five Please!

Listening to all the political posturing after the failure of the Super committee all I could think of was Portia Nelson’s poem, Autobiography in Five Short Chapters. Why do we keep expecting different results from the same old behaviors? Maybe I’m just cranky today but I am so tired of the same old rhetoric – can we just move on to Chapter Five?…

Thanks for My Giving

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, our thoughts turn to thanks and gratitude. But, this morning, I began to think of it another way. We usually give thanks for what we have received—tangible or intangible. But knowing that receiving and giving are part of one continuous flow, shouldn’t we be just as thankful for what we give?…

Happy New Year!

September has always felt like the New Year to me.  I guess the excitement of the new school year—and  my special first day of school clothes—always felt like a new beginning.  By the end of summer, I had transitioned and decompressed from the previous school year and I was ready to begin again full of hope, promise and drive.…

Set Me Free!

Happy 4th of July—Independence Day for Americans! This may be our day of freedom in the US but almost every other country in the world celebrates one day or another. Wikipedia lists over 150 days of independence including one for Vatican City (who would have thought)!…

Making Waves (again)!

I’m on vacation and resurrecting this blog from last year as a reminder to myself that tackling just the next step is always a good thing! At the beginning of a new year (and a new decade) I’m ready to plunge right in and make waves. …