Small acts, big impact.
Smiling?
We’re headed into a holiday weekend. You may be up for a little unleavened bread or, you’ve tucked away chocolate and eggs in case a certain floppy-eared creature needs to dip into your stash. Either way, you probably visited one or more of your local markets – for food, for drink, and possibly for flowers. […]
Gratitude is Great, But THEN What?
Yesterday many of us expressed our gratitude – some with family, some with friends, and others, on their own and in their own way. But what comes after the gratitude? Are you still digesting your meal, and the midnight snack that you couldn’t resist before bed? Are you running to the stores in pursuit of […]
Feeling Foolish
There are times I want to reach out to someone, but I hesitate. I don’t want to embarrass them. I don’t want to make assumptions. I don’t want to embarrass myself. There are times I’m skeptical when someone praises me, though that happens less as I get older. These days? Offer me a kind word, […]
Is “Giving” Complicated?
Generosity shoukd come naturally. It’s in our best interest.
How to Survive a Really Bad Day
The key to getting through a bad day? A superb glass of wine at the end of the day may enable you to unwind – just a little. But to make it through? While the-day-from-hell is in process? You need great people. Or as Blanche DuBois might say, the kindness of strangers. Yesterday was a […]
Dental Dam(n) and Cool Whip
Your eyelids are swollen shut and you’re trying to pry them open and feeling for your glasses which, oddly, aren’t in the place where you put them every damn night but somehow they’ve gone AWOL when you’re running late and you can’t see anyway because (a) you can’t find your glasses and (b) your eyelids […]
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Notions of service to customers, to family, to community.
Bashing the banking biz?
Feel like bashing the banking biz? Join the crowd. We’re weary of hearing about bailouts that boggle the mind, executive bonuses and perks, and of course – fraud – exceeding anything we could ever have imagined. Then there’s the stock market – for millions of us, we’ve watched whatever savings we had take a dive, […]