The Warm Blanket of Low Expectations

The Warm Blanket of Low Expectations

How many of these trite slices of advice have you heard, Constant Reader: “Think Positive” Visualize Your Success” “Believe in Yourself” “Just Do it!” I’ve heard my share, especially during periods of extreme challenges....
Life as the Wheel of Fortune

Life as the Wheel of Fortune

I made several attempts to post this sign so that all of the message words showed, but the edges remained clipped. I’ve decided to post it as is…for isn’t this an apt depiction of daily life?!! We seldom are able to read all of the signs fully,...
Fame

Fame

The Beatles came to America for my birthday, many years ago. They didn’t know it, but I did. That is the way of Fame – no thought for my existence. George Harrison famously asserted that the Beatles didn’t want to be famous – they wanted to be...

Success Theater

This new term came to me in a Word Spy email, the urban dictionary that is keeping this older chick hip… well, actually my mouth is keeping me hipper, by eating all the stuff 🙁  But I digress as I speak of my propensity to ingest (laugh now) My husband and I...