Casey just finished her volleyball Club season. We were lucky enough during our tournament in Denver to witness the USA and China Paralympics sitting volleyball teams play a match. These extraodinary athletes compete sitting down and scooting themselves around on their bottoms. Paralympic volleyball follows the same rules as its non-disabled counterpart with a few modifications to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Motherhood'
Who is putting up the barriers?
June 13th, 2011 No Comments
You don’t know what to do You don’t know how to do it You don’t have the money or the authority to do it You are scared you’ll fail. Once you figure out what is holding you back, then it’s far easier to figure out how to go over, around or through the barrier.
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Father’s Day Idea (Ideal for Mother’s Day too)
June 10th, 2011 No Comments
A friend of mine writes a letter to each of his kids on Father’s Day. The letters can include a reflection of things that happened over the last year and how much that child is loved. I love it! Young children may not get it right away, but as they look back at letters over [...]
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No, Freedom isn’t Free
May 30th, 2011 No Comments
I watched the flag pass by one day. It fluttered in the breeze. A young Marine saluted it, and then he stood at ease. I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud, He’d stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years. How [...]
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Modern Mom More Than “… A Regular Woman”
May 27th, 2011 No Comments
According to a recent Nielsen Company study, 34% of American households are home to kids under 18, and modern moms wear many hats and play many roles. These moms are 19% more likely than the general population to engage in social networking, and even more likely to become a fan or follow a brand (31% [...]
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Stand up…your Father’s passin…
May 11th, 2011 No Comments
One of my favorite classic movies is To Kill a Mockingbird. I sat down last weekend with Casey and watched it with her. Atticus Finch is my hero. A man to be admired because he always did the right thing regardless of color, social status or what the majority thought. He tried to instill those same virtues in [...]
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Make it positive
April 15th, 2011 No Comments
Children today have a lot of pressure. Much more than when I was a kid. School is harder. It’s much more difficult to get into college. There’s more pressure to specialize in sports, music or drama. If most kids want to excel, it requires specialized training whether it’s singing lessons, acting lessons or pitching lessons. There’s a ton of pressure [...]
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YES, I CAN
April 8th, 2011 No Comments
The hair on the back of my neck stands on end, when I hear, “I can’t do that.” Whether it’s at work or from the mouth of my beloved daughter. I believe in “Yes, I can.” Too often we hear, “I can’t do that” from companies as well as people. Are there some instances that [...]
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Pretty in Pink
March 28th, 2011 1 Comment
I was reading recently about some great marketing minds. One in particular stuck with me… Mary Kay. Network marketing (recruiting independents to serve as distributors of goods and services, and then encouraging them to build and manage their own sales force – considered by many a pyramid) had been around for several decades when Mary [...]
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