Everyone’s best helper: the cat
Is your cat this helpful? What other things does your pet do to gain your attention?
Sharon Lee Hughson
Banning Unrealistic Expectations
In a society where expectations rule decision-making processes, it’s past time to understand the difference between those that are realistic and unrealistic. We owe it to ourselves and our families to put a ban on setting unreachable standards. Beginning on March 10, a series of posts about expectations has been featured on this blog. The …
Family Movie Night
Friday night for years meant two things: pizza and movies. Before our sons had a social calendar rivaling Paris Hilton, we would rent two movies, pick up a pizza and chill out in the family room. This was back when the movies came from Blockbuster. Conveniently, our movie rental store was located two doors down …
The Sky is not the Limit
What sort of things limit you? Now, is that a real obstacle? Or did you build it up in your mind until it loomed so large, you couldn’t see anything else? The only limit is the one you place on yourself.
What do you want to do when you grow up?
When I first started school I wanted to be a teacher. Who wouldn’t want to boss everyone around? By fourth grade, I loved making up stories, so I decided I wanted to be a novelist. Later…solving mysteries seemed exciting, so how about becoming an FBI agent? Like most kids, my thoughts about the future vacillated from …
Starting Something New
Maybe it’s the way the tape holding the cotton ball in the bend of my arm pulls whenever I type. I even give blame credit to the golden sun making patterns on the porch outside my office window. Starting a new project brings out the best – and worst – of my natural tendencies to procrastinate or …
Expectations that build character
Some readers might have given up on my series regarding expectations for young people. After all, it seems like a diatribe against education, government or parenting. Aren’t their some expectations we should have for our children? Duh. Lack of appropriate expectations has damaged our youth as much as unrealistic expectations. Maybe even more. We all …
Missing a Deadline
While traveling away from home, deadlines are left behind not packed in the suitcase. If only I could have avoided the electronic age of mishaps while in Las Vegas this past week. Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will do wrong.” Okay, it wasn’t that bad. The house could have burned down or been robbed. …
World Travel in one long walk
Only in Las Vegas can you go from New York to Paris by crossing four pedestrian bridges and zero bodies of water. This is world travel at its least complex. Bright blue sky accompanied our stroll down Las Vegas Boulevard on Monday morning. After registering at the conference at The Cosmopolitan, we began our tourist …