Category: Rants & Reflections

I just returned home from spending four days with my parents and sister in lovely (insert eye roll here) Oklahoma.  It was my mom’s birthday and Father’s Day weekend.  We didn’t go out much because of the pandemic, instead spending time together relaxing and talking.  The trip was one of highs and lows.   Lows being…

Through regular practice of meditation, affirmations and exercise, I am such a different person than I was a couple of years ago.  Even my co-workers have noticed the change in my attitude,.  (Which makes me cringe thinking how bad I must have been before).  As it is, today, I’m not easily overwhelmed by things and…

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…