Pick Your Vocab
It isn’t just for writing, you should pick your vocab carefully, all the time. Say what you mean. (Or, people around you will think you mean what you say.) There is a different word for everything. At least, it sometimes Read More …
Category: life
Learn and Live
As we go, learn and live… We learn and live longer, in love and with family and friends. ~ Dawn aka Hat Girl
Three Happy Things
Look around, it is time to find three happy things, or at least three things that will make you smile. The flower that bloomed. The child giggling. The lawn recently mowed, in perfect lines criss-crossing the yard. The newly ripe Read More …
Don’t Know Yet
There are a lot of things, millions probably, that you don’t know yet. Yes, even at your particular age – old or young. Some of them have very little to do with the ability to learn but the timing of Read More …
Just Say It
Anything you want to know more about, just say it out loud. Ask questions. Do research. Read more. Watch a little. Be ready to learn. You don’t even need to be that interested in something but if you just say Read More …
Ready Set Wait
Go should be next, but instead, it is ready, set, wait. Planning ahead is a good thing but when something out of your control: weather shipping delays 3rd party provider effort an untested (but well thought out) solution that doesn’t Read More …
You Know Why
So, do you know why things happen? Timing (being late) Logistics (getting there) Positioning (wrong place) Information (or mis-information) Interpretation (misreading the situation) Let’s be honest, you know why, and you also now how to fix it. But, it will Read More …
Pleasantly Surprised
When you are pleasantly surprised… by a company, by a colleague, by an organization, by a casual friend – an acquaintance really – let’s not elevate them too high, by an institution, so much so that you may not even Read More …
Not Quite Right
When you think something is not quite right, trust yourself. Your gut. Your instincts. Your prior experience. Or, your friends who think something is weird. And…the material change of something that has always been there and now is gone. (There Read More …
Just Right
The elusive goal of “just right” is literally a problem for anyone (not just Goldilocks). Sometimes, we don’t have it the way we want it because we care about others and their feelings. However, when feelings are not a part Read More …