Time for a visit! I could only stay away for so long before I had to check in with my Tyler, all the way out at Purdue. Just a quick trip, long enough to get a “Bug hug,” and find the best donut and burger in West Lafayette… I think that we hit the jackpot!! šĀ Ā Ā A REALLY good burger we found–with peanut butter on top!Ā Who would…
We work with many boards of directors every day in our profession. I have seen great successes on boards, as well as great shortcomings. Some of this I have observed, some of this I have been a part of, as a board member myself through the years. I ponder, what goes into making a great board of directors? Why are some boards thriving while others struggle so? Clearly…
Friday, I had the pleasure of attending a meeting up in Vermont. Twist my arm; I had to go traveling to one of my favorite places. Sometimes life is so hard. š Kathleen, my co-worker, and I traveled together. Good company, good conversation. We always have a pleasant visit whenever we go somewhere. Thank you, Kathleen! I enjoy our trips. After the meeting, she asked me if I…
There are always those situations that we wish we had handled differently. I am talking about a bad draw of interaction, a time in which you might have been put into an uncomfortable spot—not because of you, but more because of the mood of someone else.Ā (eyebrow raise) I always feel that I need to immediately come back with a response when I am spoken to.Ā I think most of…
Every day you wake up with a choice. Which way am I going?…
It sneaks in every year, right after our own county fair in New York. The Hopkinton State Fair—the fair where I grew up, every Labor Day weekend, in New Hampshire. It is the backdrop of where I showed my cows, went to the tractor pulls and fell in love with all of my 4-H friends year after year. The reigns have been turned over to my nieces, nephews,…
And itās a wrap! To be honest I have a love/hate relationship with the fair—as I am sure many mothers do. We canāt help it. The fair consumes our lives the week before, the week of, and the week after. When you break it down it is a week that goes like this: Itās dealing with very tired, dirty children for the 7-day duration, turning the show clothes…
The bandaid has been ripped off, the pain is gone! I canāt tell you how happy I am to be beginning againā¦…
Here we are, August 9, where is this summer going? As I get ready to head into the last week before Tyler goes to college, I reflect and I anxiously think. I have tears that are bubbling underneath the surface that I desperately want to hide but can’t seem to. So we cry and laugh in this family because we embrace those tears. We are a family of…
Whenever I am working through something tough I always have this chant in my head, “I have faith, I have faith, I have faith…” It’s how I comfort myself and trust that my choices will all add up eventually, no matter how uncomfortable and lost I am feeling at the present. Better things always come. Just believe.…
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