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As my blog states above, I try to find peace in everyday moments. In fact, I prefer to find peace in every moment moments! But whatever is happening to me in that moment is the perfect thing to be happening, for whatever reason. That doesn’t mean that if I am not feeling particularly great that [...]
About 8 months ago, I had decided to stay in my classroom late, as I am wont to do. Some in my family are not particularly pleased that I do this because my school is not in one of the best neighborhoods in my city. Additionally, this is a time when I was riding my [...]
I have quoted before, “You can’t control your circumstances, but you can control how you react to them.” Today I had a personal challenge to to do just that when my morning plans were cast up into the wind. As I am on fall break, I had spent Monday giving my classroom a much needed [...]
Too many people think they are dumber than they really are. What is more true is that they are not dumb, but they make themselves believe they are because they would really rather be lazy. I was one of those people. It didn’t matter how much my step-mother pounded into my head that I was [...]
I had a friend email me recently with whom I hadn’t communicated in years. He lamented getting laid off from a job he’d had for years – he’d given his heart and soul to the job – yet he’d never been married, didn’t have any children, and found himself approaching 40 feeling as though he [...]
After five days of not seeing my five-year old son (six years next week!), I went to my mom’s place (Thanks for watching him, Mom!) to pick him up to take him home (after a late night of parent teacher conferences). He was lying on the bed watching a commercial at the end of
Having existed on this earthly plane for over 44 years now, I can honestly say that older people are most certainly wiser! I don’t care how wise you think you are when you are a teen, or in your twenties for that matter, you don’t fully realize how little you understood when you were younger [...]
After months of surviving on refrigerated air, both in my humble abodes (I had three of them this summer!) and my car. Not to mention busses and the lightrail, I am enjoying the recent cool turn in our weather here in Phoenix, Arizona. After 14 months of being essentially
I debated long and hard about writing about this in a public forum. Part of me says that what I am about to divulge is too much information. But, another part of me, my gut – the part I trust the most – tells me that if I am truly going to be of service, [...]
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Having read The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann, I have been making a concerted effort to be more of a giver. I have also opened myself up to receiving all the good that presents itself to me. (Or do I mean the good presents