Posts archive for August, 2011

Think and Grow HAPPY

Can you really make yourself happy?  Unequivocably YES.  Many people are faced with the same challenges everyday, yet some allow it to bring them down and others brush through it and move on.  Why?  My mother always said, “It’s all in the way you frame it.”  Used to drive me crazy, but now I get it.  You really have to tell […]

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Dallas is a Diamond in the Rough

I give Dallas a knuckle-to-knuckle high five for embracing Mom Corps, our outstanding candidates and our mission.  This business community is progressive. Over and over I’m questioned by people I meet “Are you finding Dallas businesses receptive to flexible employment?” Some people are skeptical … “you really think businesses will hire professionals on a flexible basis – even permanent hires?” […]

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Score!

  My ultimate parenting goal is to make the next generation better than the last. I will do this by raising a healthy, productive, confident, genuinely happy individual who is independent and will one day use his talents to serve others and love those around him. Two signals via my son’s quotes this weekend that I may be on my […]

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Balanced Work

Yesterday, my 10-year-old son announced he was going to have four different jobs when he grows up.   “Really?” I ask.   “Yep.  First, I want to work for Coca-Cola, no wait, Dr. Pepper.  That way I can get free Dr. Pepper at lunch time.  Don’t you think they would give their people that?  Then, I want to work at […]

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Happy Sister’s Day!

  Charles Schultz once said, “Big sisters are the crab grass on the lawn of life.”  As I read his quote to Peyton, my younger daughter, she began to smile, and nodded yes when I asked her if it rang true.  Being a younger sister myself, I too appreciated his sentiment!  Peyton is two years younger than Cameron, and they […]

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