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Next week is Thanksgiving: Why wait to share all that fills us with gratitude? I’m following Michael Hyatt’s lead and posting about the attitude of gratitude. Today I carried a pocket cross, and I plan to renew my habit of … Continue reading →

Here is a letter (sent via snail mail) to the managers at the Holiday Inn Express in Lubbock (on Interstate 27): Dear Management Team, I want to express my gratitude for your prompt response to two things that happened during … Continue reading →

We met during our fifteenth year, immediately inseparable, soul mates, imagining life eternally together. But youthful ideals are impractical. After we graduated, ambition, a greater divider than geography, widened a gulf between us. The year I started college, she married. … Continue reading →

He loves me. I love knowing this. It’s awkward and inconvenient; undeniable in heightening my awareness. He speaks only a little English, but strong emotions need no translation. I nod at him, smiling. I’m polite, remote, yet his heart races … Continue reading →

I’ve come to realize that I’m dealing with a snake. Maybe you’ve dealt with his type before. He’s shady. Crafty. His strike is not a venomous dart, so fast that you never see it coming. No, he’s more the insidious … Continue reading →

It’s ten o’clock (p.m.) and I’m pretty wiped out. We spent all day in a conference room compiling information on issues affecting the quality of our newly launched product family. It must be the absence of kms of walking that … Continue reading →

Today I felt like Goldilocks in the tourist scene. One of my companions is too agreeable and the other is too contentious. When we laid out our Sunday strategy on Friday, we’d agreed to meet at 9am in the lobby, … Continue reading →

“What do you think they’re doing?” Julie asked. “Keep your voice down!” Sean responded, frowning. “Do you wanna get caught?” He wished Julie wasn’t with him but when he saw Coach Brown and Ms. Starr leaving he didn’t have time … Continue reading →

Saturday may or may not have dawned cold, damp and gray; I didn’t wake up until well past dawn. Regardless, it was cold, damp and gray when I left the hotel at 10 a.m., eager for the day’s adventures. My … Continue reading →