When I was 15, I knew for sure what I was going to do for the rest of my life. I would be a professional ballroom dancer.
This New Year’s resolution is to not be as busy. Let me see, what can I quit doing?
I sat down to write a poem for this year’s Christmas Card,but no words of rhyme or ideas came—it just seemed too hard.
Well, here we go marching into the holiday season again and you know what the first sign is? Catalogues. Many, many catalogues and all of them wanting you to buy, buy, buy.
It wasn’t too long ago that I was commuting daily to Seattle. This commute involved a ferry ride and then a walk to my office building. Of course, I had my “ferry friends” to talk to during this water ride, but I couldn’t help noticing that you could almost tell what people were going to do in Seattle by the clothes they wore.
It all started at lunch one day: Two guys were talking about the good old days and the conversation got around to hobbies, both past and present. One guy had started woodworking since retiring, turning out lovely bowls for his wife and relatives. The other guy had been doing leatherwork for many years, but since the arthritis is getting worse in his hands that’s sort of been on the backburner. Then they started talking about radio-controlled model airplanes.
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I’ve made my annual resolution again. No not the one like you do at the New Year, this is my…
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Already we are into the fall of our year 2010. I don’t know how the trees that are turning golden…
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Every one I know has a busy life. Mothers are taking the kids to school and then they volunteer to…
The dictionary says that attitude is an opinion or a way of thinking. I guess I agree and after thinking…
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If you can whisk though the Thanksgiving family dinner, go shopping the day after in search of that ‘just perfect…
