Category: Rants & Reflections

This year one of my focus words is education. And one aspect of that will be reading more books. So this week I’m sharing fifteen books that have had the biggest impact on me. They cover a broad range of genres, topics and time periods and include classics, nonfiction and modern releases. The Awakening by…

Proper etiquette evolves over time.  Overall this is a good thing. For example, in the Victorian Era single women could not even talk to a man without a proper introduction and intelligence in females was discouraged.  Screw that! But there are some staples that are falling out of practice that I wish would stick around.  …

My parents, my sister and I traveled to Hot Springs, Arkansas to recreate a family vacation like the ones we went on so frequently during my childhood.  I picked Hot Springs for our destination because I had visited about 6 years ago for a work conference.  I loved the old hotel we stayed in and…

Continuing my series on life lessons, (read the first part here), today I’m covering three huge lessons learned when I took an executive assistant job in Jacksonville, Florida. Don’t Make Assumptions Before taking the position in Jacksonville, I had been working for a gaming company in Texas for ten years.  It became evident that the…

There are several times in life where, for whatever reason, something someone says or does teaches you a valuable lesson that you never forget.  It is so profound that it resurfaces at appropriate times to help you adjust your behavior for the better – a life lesson.  Here is the story of two of my…