I started to believe customer service was dead when I came across a couple of incidents that really bothered me. One example: I was getting lunch the other day at a cafeteria style restaurant and the woman in front of me was with her young daughter. The woman had a broken arm in a sling and was struggling to...
So believe it or not, I had been walking on a fractured ankle for a month. I knew there was a problem. I had walked with a neighbor two miles as we normally did every night and we had gone so fast that I suggested we do another round around the park – another two miles. At the end...
Good things about being a single parent that No One will tell you about. LOL! I get every other weekend to myself. On facebook one of my friends quoted another woman at the park who said, “yes tomorrow is my day off“ My girlfriend posted “what mommies get a day off?”. I almost didn’t want to post back - because if...
So the time came when my ten year olds daughter's fashion sense has kicked in and she is beginning to notice what other girls her age are wearing. Going to a uniform school, I have been able to bypass the usual requests of a specific shirt or skirts, but recently she came to me to have a sit down. It...
This weekend I was reminded to be a “Smart Fish”. You know when you hear the same thing from several people that you have to think for a moment that a higher power is trying to tell you something. You may think to yourself: Wow, Mary just said that same thing to me! Or Wow I just read that same thing...
Last year as I was reviewing my fourth grader’s Social Studies test, I couldn’t help but laugh at an answer she had written. Of course in Fourth Grade it is all about the BEST answer, not a correct answer to a problem as it is enforced in Kindergarten through Third Grade, so fourth grade was a big change for...
The Fear We all have our fears. Sometimes they drive us, sometimes they can hinder us. They start sometimes as the thunder outside the window as a small child and sometimes when we are grown, we don’t even know why we have the fear, we just know it’s there. I came across my biggest fear two weeks ago when I ran...
Sometimes it is good for children to believe in magical ideas such as Santa or good old Saint Nick. I believe it not only helps their imagination, but creates good will making them act maybe a little better believing Santa is watching them. After all, there really was a Saint Nicholas who was a rich kind man and was...
Now I am mad. I mean very MAD. Now don’t misunderstand me, I completely understand if you have just bought a new townhouse or home and you have work to do, but come on- waiting until 10 pm to start the demolition and actually drilling and hammering at midnight? Who does that? Well new neighbors I have apparently do and...
Dear Santa it’s a long story… Have I been naughty or nice? Well I think this year coal is out of the question as most would agree. I have been nice, but it’s a long story. I have worked hard on getting old bad relationships out of my life and forgiving those who have done me wrong. But don’t misunderstand...
