I am down with the ‘flu since the last three days. Right now my husband is yelling at me to get off the computer, and I say, please, just two minutes. Apologies for being a day late with the Wednesday Wisdom, but hey, wisdom any day of the week works, right?…
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A successful businessman was riding his fancy car down a street when he saw a kid run out onto his path. He slowed down, and as he passed the boy, a brick smashed into his car’s door. He instantly slammed the brakes and reversed to the spot from where the brick…
This tree is my friend. It seamlessly fits along the wall of my son’s school and has kept me company when I waited to pick him up. Of course, I was the kind of Mom who’d land up half an hour early with a book so I could spend a pleasant…
I read a superb book some years ago. Let me share something I read in it, with you. You have a photo album or albums, right? Doesn’t matter if it is digital or the physical kind. In these, you keep memories of happy times. Maybe there’s a photo… … of you…
Did you know you can have too much of a good thing? That less is more? Of course, you do! We’ve all grown up hearing that bit of advice. When you have too much of something, it is almost always bad. Case in point: Arsenic, a naturally occurring chemical. It is…
The opposite of “Don’t just stand there! Do something” We’re all so caught up with doing rather than being that it feels like a luxury to pause even for a moment. We are tuned to be on the move, running, mostly via the keyboard and watching our lives play out on…
A psychologist, who taught stress management, walked around the room. As the class watched, she picked up a glass of water and raised it. Everyone assumed she would ask them whether the glass was half empty or half full. But she surprised them by smiling and asking: “How heavy is this glass of water?”…