I hope you will excuse the break in format this week but I gave my friends a week off from answering my questions for the holiday. I'd like to take this pondering time to reflect of tweeting my 50,000th tweet this week and what I have learned in the past year or so. I initially started tweeting so I could share photos to The Daily Shoot which only accepted tweeted photos. It took quite a few Continue reading
23 November 2011 
Inspirational Thoughts from Mother Teresa
November 23, 2011 By 5 Comments
Inspired by my friend, Michelle Kay who wrote the popular post 12 Most Uplifting Quotes by Muhammad Ali, I would love to share with you a few of the intelligent thoughts of a tiny woman filled with love and compassion. Mother Teresa spent forty five years helping the most poor, sick and needy people in Calcutta, India. She created the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 and at the time of her death Continue reading
21 November 2011 
Ponderings: Life Lessons Learned
November 21, 2011 By 17 Comments
A few years ago on Thanksgiving, I had to run to the store for a few last-minute things while preparing dinner. I had only a few items and was waiting in line to pay. A women and her teen age son were in front of me with her items on the conveyor belt. I looked at the items on the conveyor: cereal, lunch meat and a few other very basic items. Nothing at all for a holiday meal. When the cashier Continue reading
14 November 2011 
Ponderings: What Motivates You?
November 14, 2011 By 9 Comments
Motivation - the thing that gets you out of bed every morning and carries you through the day. And up the next day and so on and so on. Motivation is something that must spring forth from within and be an undercurrent in everything you do. I am personally motivated by wanting to do the very best that I can to meet the responsibilities that I have made, to myself, my family and others, as well Continue reading
7 November 2011 
Ponderings: What is Your Favorite Book and Why?
November 7, 2011 By 12 Comments
I love reading! When I meet friends who like to read as well I love it. I have been a voracious reader from the age of maybe five when I used to walk to the library alone and carry home as many books as possible. I used to bring a huge stack home with me. I read through the children's picture book section alphabetically- true story! I know that this is an unfair pondering question as picking Continue reading
