Author and motivational speaker Amy Morin shared an article on LifeHack.org listing 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do a couple of years ago. Her post (and book by the same title) are primarily self-help, overcoming tips designed to guide readers in leaving behind defeatist habits and taking charge of their future and personal happiness. […]
This past week communities in Florida and Georgia felt the force of Hurricane Irma as it made its way across the southeastern United States. Trees were downed and large areas without power are still common. (We personally lost power for 24 hours.) In the meantime, folks in Houston Texas continue to recover from the unprecedented […]
It was 2012. The first Avengers movie took the box office by storm, Carly Rae Jepsen beckoned you to “Call Me Maybe” and Michael Phelps wowed in the London Summer Olympics. On a more serious note, the much-probed attack on the US diplomats in Benghazi, Libya took place, and “Super-Storm” Sandy swamped the northeast. Closer […]
Blueberry season is normally long over by August, but amazingly our bushes are still yielding a few small berries. I can only think that Atlanta’s excessive early summer rains are the reason for our extended fruiting season. But whatever the cause, I’m content to be relishing a last few sweet treats this late in the […]
This week’s long-awaited, somewhat over-hyped solar eclipse managed to overshadow almost everything else and completely dominated the news headlines. Moving at roughly a 1000 miles per hour, the moon’s 150 mile wide shadow tracked coast to coast across the United States beginning in Oregon and vanished off the coast of South Carolina a short time […]
A death in the family. Is anyone ever ready for that kind of news? Especially when it’s sudden and unexpected. The brother of our soon-to-be son-in-law took his life yesterday. The events leading up to his self-inflicted death are sketchy, but at this point, I don’t think the details really matter. The cold, brutal truth […]
