Thursday’s Child Has Far To Go

“Thursday’s child has far to go.” Is Thursday’s child born of poverty and disadvantage? Or is “Thursday’s child” destined for greatness, as in he or she “will go far”? It would be nice to think that Thursday’s child’s lot in life is the latter – the “will go far” version – but according to Bread [...]

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Wednesday’s Child Is Full Of Woe

“Wednesday’s child is full of woe.” Woe (noun): grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. Obviously what we’re dealing with here, if we’re to believe the reports of Wednesday’s childhood plight, is childhood depression, which a most serious affliction and fortunately is far more treatable today than in the days when this line was first penned. On [...]

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Tuesday’s Child Is Full of Grace

“Tuesday’s child is full of grace.” Is it a religious reference, this “grace” that Tuesday’s child is full of? Is it social grace, as in being self-effacing, modest, or moving easily amongst social circles? Grace as in graceful movement or poise? Is it grace as in innate goodness or kindness or benevolence? Of all the [...]

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Monday’s Child Is Fair Of Face

“Monday’s child is fair of face.” Would it be unkind to say, of a newborn, anything less than “Oh, what a beautiful baby!”? The beauty in babies is, in some measure, their “just born” newness, a sort of freshness and state of being “as yet untouched by the world”. But not all babies are, in [...]

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A TSA Screening and Airline Passenger Safety Solution

What if, instead of requiring all passengers to be subjected to a body scan or pat-down search the TSA and airlines offered passengers this option: Travel on an maximum security flight or travel on a minimum security flight? Maximum security air travel: Get scanned or patted down, plus all the usual security measures. Secure air [...]

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The Movies Winters Bone and Get Low, Roger Ebert and Oleaginous

I will miss Roger Ebert if he goes before me. Who, but Ebert, can speak such great truths in movie reviews (as follows) and not be accused of “damning by faint praise”? After you get to a certain point with an actor, you don’t much care what he does, you just want to watch him [...]

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Stages Of The Career Development Process

Allow me to suggest, based upon my own life experience and observing the world around me, that there’s a hierarchical process of steps and stages in the career development process that evolve something like I’ve outlined below. Why is it important to give thought to stages in the process? Well, for one there’s the matter [...]

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What Empowers Empowerment?

Interesting question: What empowers empowerment? It’s a question that popped into my mind when pondering the creation of a new website. First, I’d like to suggest that unless someone is of that power they can never truly, really empower another. File this thought on the same thought-shelf as “Those who know don’t speak. Those who [...]

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A Weekly Meal Plan for Diet and Weight Loss Success

There was a time in our lives when we always had a weekly meal plan posted on the door to the refrigerator. In part this was a strategy for dealing with the busy lives of two working parents with two children in school and also involved in a daily extra curricular activities. Having a meal [...]

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Is there Still Value in Weekly News Magazines

There was a time when I subscribed to multiple weekly news magazines, such as Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report. I enjoyed reading them. I enjoyed the quality of the writing, the depth of coverage, the quality images. For awhile now, thought I haven’t subscribed to any weekly news magazine. Why? It’s wasn’t [...]

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A Tip for Finding the Perfect Summer Vacation Rental

It’s that time of year again, the time to locate and reserve a weekly summer vacation rental where the extended clan will gather for recreation and to catch up. Every year finding and reserving a summmer beach vacation rental is a bit like an adventure hunt: Where should we stay? The Jersey shore? The Outerbanks [...]

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Cutting the Personal Costs of Online Printable Coupons

My wife and I are fans of getting a good value for our money, buying a quality product for a price that’s hard to beat. So, naturally, we’re always on the look-0ut for sales, store coupons and deals. One way of assuring that we know about coupons and deals is to sign up to have [...]

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Free Will and Weight Loss

“Free will.” Sounds easy, doesn’t it? The “free” in free will lends to the appearance of ease: of availablity, of availability, without cost or charge. Yet, consider the realm of body weight and its affects our health. How many of us are over-weight? Are we overweight because we “will it”? Would we impose the consequences [...]

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Time to Buy a 2010 Daily Personal Planner

Among the many Christmas gifts that “keep giving” one of the very best gifts can be the gift of a weekly personal planner. Now, I’m not saying it’s the perfect gift to give every year or the perfect gift for everyone, but – really – a personal planner is the type of gift that everyone [...]

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Calendars for the Expecting Mom

Well, it finally went and happened, and fortunately it happened in “good form” -> as in “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby . . “. What finally happened? Well, the “next generation” is what happened in our little clan of my brother, my sister and yours truly. My sister’s son and his [...]

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Lava Lamps Are The Perfect Do Nothing

My daughter, in response to something she gleaned from her old man (me) – something I said, a casual remark, an expression of whimsy – decided that the perfect gift for her father would be a lava lamp. To those for whom a lava lamp evokes an image of an exploding mountain of melting rock [...]

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