Category: Rants & Reflections

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…

Strolling around downtown Fort Worth during a lunch break recently, I had my earbuds in listening to some music.  This particular day, I was honed in on how each song would give what was going on around me a totally different feel, similar to how music enhances a scene in a movie. My curiosity was…