Open or Closed
It is fairly easy to tell if someone’s mind is open or closed… all you have to do is see how they react to political commentary. On the other hand, there are some retail stores that it is really difficult Read More …
Category: general
Can I Talk Now?
This is not a business experience anecdote, but could easily apply to customer service theory: When your customer asks, “Can I talk now?” You should definitely listen. In my case, my customer was my 10 year old daughter. She had Read More …
Vile Vitamins
Is it really true that the vile vitamins are better for you? The ones without coatings, sugar or colorings (color doesn’t have taste of course, unless it’s green which to me tastes grassy or young) but somehow the neutral, natural Read More …
All Ages
Certain things are available and applicable to all ages. Who says that a sport is only available to children, or just to adults? In karate, the adults take the same class as the children who have already earned their Black Read More …
Done Using Technology
Every day I am impressed at how much can be done using technology; some days, not so much. Most often though, I think, “wow! That was pretty cool.” Bill paying. Voice to text. E-mail (both good and bad, obviously). Communicating Read More …
Just Relax
Probably the most difficult thing for moms to do on a regular basis is to just relax. Sit back, put your feet up and don’t worry about dinner, dishes, laundry, lunches, homework, work-work, bill paying, house cleaning, garden sprucing up. Read More …
It Takes More
Usually, it takes more to do something (at least the first time) than you think it will. Besides the months of preparing to have a baby, trying to have a baby, and then growing a baby…raising one is full of endless Read More …
Always Ask
Even for moms (and dads) it is never good to assume…always ask what someone wants or prefers. One of my son’s friend’s Mom (and also, PTO president) I know always suggested we follow the “do unto others as they would Read More …
I’m Not Your Mother
It may be tempting to say…”I’m not your mother” and be able to walk away; however, true moms, moms of the heart, through and through, deep into their soul, cannot walk away. Of course, I am not thinking of anything Read More …
Kids Today
I hear it all the time. I have heard it since I was a kid. Our piano tuner said it to my husband and I just the other day. I have even, maybe once or twice, muttered it under my Read More …