“Shared By Carla” Sometime today or tomorrow or next month, in practically every commercial office and manufacturing plant in the world, an important executive will sit back in his or her chair and study a list of names on a sheet of white paper. Your name may be on it. A position of responsibility is …
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Uncle Earl
“Shared by Carla” “Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.” Joseph Addison, The Spectator Annually my husband’s family has a reunion in a state park in the mountains of North Carolina. At one of the reunions, the weather was overcast, and more rain …
The Corsage
“Shared By Carla” “You’ve got to help me!” My friend pleaded with me. “You’ve got to take this girl to her sorority event.” This girl was getting interested in my friend, an interest he didn’t want to grow. While I was reluctant to get involved in this mess he had created, he was a good …
Something of Value
“Shared By Carla” I recently returned from presenting a workshop in Cincinnati, and when I pulled up to the parking attendant’s booth at the airport, I handed him my ticket and he flashed me a huge grin and said, “Hello! That’ll be $30.50.” “$30.50?” I echoed, incredulous. “I was only here for 24 hours. I …
The Making Of A Memory
“Share by Carla” One can’t predict when or where they will come from; those memories that stay with us a lifetime, and never fail to bring us warm fuzzy feelings. My husband had just finished loading his car; made one lap back through the house and then into the kitchen. “I guess filling my thermos …