Although I don’t participate in #7QT every week, I am a sucker for doing it when I receive Christina’s weekly #7QT in my email, especially when I am procrastinating cleaning house, which is what I really need to be doing. This post is probably borne of rather self-centered motives (needing to procrastinate the housecleaning, needing to […]
Grace, Tenacity, Humor (Meeting Tenley Albright)
On Friday, July 18, Tenley and I left for Tampa to fly up to Boston. In addition to Boston, the trip would take us to Connecticut to spend time with dear friends, then to New York City where we indulged our love of NYC and saw more friends. The reason for going to Boston deserves […]
Always Ripe (A #MandelaDay Post)
On Friday, July 18, people around the world shared their favorite Nelson Mandela quotes on the occasion of the sixth “Mandela Day” and the first since his death in December 2013. For more information about Mandela Day, please visit this link. To see my quote, view the following brief video: According to the Mandela Day website, […]
“Pronouns Matter” and Other Favorite Quotes
Since I was undecided regarding what to blog about today, I checked my “drafts” folder and decided to tackle one of the 23 “posts-to-be” that had never seen the light of day. The oldest one is the list of Mama Kat prompts for the week of April 11, 2013. One of the prompts is “list […]
A Slurpee-Free #7QT
— 1 — I don’t even like slurpees that much (it would be one more thing to report on LoseIt) and face my coach’s nitpicking. I give her plenty of material about which to nitpick (case in point: a recent comment read “you could have had three cups of broccoli for the calories you spent […]
Ashley Judd: Choosing To Make A Difference
All That is Bitter and Sweet by Ashley Judd (with Maryanne Vollers) really could be two different books: one about Ashley Judd’s work with Population Services International (PSI) and another about her personal journey to recovery. It is the fact that one book intersperses both things, the volunteer work and the recovery, though, that gives […]