“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about dancing in the rain.”
My power was off for about 30 hours recently. I lost most of the groceries in my small fridge, but thankfully all that was really in there were cans of Slimfast! Several other families I know weren’t so lucky. They’re already struggling financially and losing a freezer with a month’s groceries was just one more straw on the growing pile.
My whole life seems to revolve around email and the internet since I mostly work online. Without …

I overheard a mother in the grocery store telling her young daughter not to be so opinionated, loud and aggressive the other day because people wouldn’t like her if she was. The young girl was simply expressing what she thought about a teacher who slacked on the job. She wasn’t yelling. She was using a normal tone of voice and sounded very matter-of-fact and intelligent to me!
“He thinks the girls are stupid and gives us lame assignments. I’m bored. I think he hates women,” she was saying to her friend …

Part of feeling pressured, overwhelmed and frazzled is having a ton of demands and no outlets or ways to minimize pressure. There are a lot of ways to cope with that - the best one being exercise or simply “taking a break.” I’m not a big television person and don’t even own a tv. But I wanted a way to “take a break” without having to go to the gym or get sweaty or eat. So I bought an ant farm. I always wanted one, so I indugled. $19.95. You …

Stories. We all love them. From early civilizations to now stories are how we pass on our history, our customs, our skills, our insights and wisdom and our legacies - who we are. If you learn how to tell a story and how to appreciate the stories of others I guarantee it will change your life.
Stories contain the nuggets of information, of wisdom, of insights from others that help inspire us, that help us lead better lives, that inspire us to be more of who we are. We tap those …