Today a gentleman named Dan Seidman spoke at the conference about eliminating excuses regarding the things you do or do not do in your life. Dan suggested that you have an accountability partner that could help keep it real and call you out on excuses. He said it should not be a life partner or spouse. I sometimes [...]
Tag: Humor
Wild fig extract
The shampoo at the Rio boasts that it contains wild fig extract. I wonder about this. What is so fabulous about fig extract and is wild fig extract somehow even more powerful? I am not sure why wild fig extract is in the shampoo. Is it for the aroma or shine assistance or flyaway taming qualities? If [...]
Dumb as a box of rocks or daredevils?
In the past week I have twice seen a large group of wild turkeys meandering around residential neighboorhoods in West Fargo. Not being a North Dakota native and having very limited experience with wild turkeys, I cannot evaluate fairly whether this public meandering just weeks before Thanksgiving indicates that they are dumb as a box [...]
Punked!!!
Cheyenne is busy tonight doing door answering/costume gushing/candy giving - duty. Somewhere along the line I lost my passion for the whole Halloween enterprise. The whole going door to door thing for kids just doesn't seem the same as it was when I was young (ummm, I mean young-er). Of course, I was a kid [...]
Validation.
You won't ever catch me saying I am the perfect parent - I am not. To be a perfect parent I would have to be a perfect person. I am not a perfect person. I can think of plenty of moments over my 30 years of parenting to-date that I could have done better with. Unfortunately, [...]
I am a life ruiner…
I am a life ruiner...or so I am told. I have heard this many times over the past couple of decades. Those would be the decades of my parenting children who have advanced into the "I believe I know what is best for my life" stage of development. It starts somewhere between the ages of [...]
The universe listens to me…
You may recall the old adage, "You get what you give." If you put out negativity, you tend to get it back. Conversely, if you put out positivity, you tend to get that back. If you put out acceptance, you tend to get back acceptance. If you put out craziness, get ready for the circus. The [...]
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