Today’s blog features the common situation of feeling invisible and insignificant and how easy it can be for us to help someone feel included, seen and respected. The insights are provided by my friend, Ansley Pugh, a board-certified family nurse practitioner, from her experiences in patient care. “As I was telling a family goodbye at […]

My closet at home is out of control. It’s so out of control that it is starting to stress me! CeCe has asked me about once a week to go through it and give away a bunch of the things that I am not using. But the more I looked at it, the more intimidated […]

Three days a week, I do a two-mile walk then 30 minutes of strength training, working a different section of the body each day. When I started, it instructed me to do two to three sets of each exercise. After 60 days, I went up to four. As you can imagine, some days, time is […]

Last year, I finally secured a boat storage slip with a roof for my fishing boat. I was so excited, I bought a lock and hauled my boat up there for the winter months. This facility was just 15 minutes from my house and a mile from the reservoir so I could grab my boat […]

Well, it’s 6 a.m. in Palm Springs and as I slip out of the room with no lights so I don’t wake CeCe, I breathe a sigh of relief as the door clicks softly as it closes. Now it’s off to grab a cup of coffee and then hit the gym before my meeting. Walking […]

This trip has been one where I feel like I was totally unprepared. Thank goodness, CeCe is with me.   First, we arrived late at the resort and both of us were starving. As soon as we checked in, we went up to the lobby to see about food. We were devastated when we learned all […]

After being such a celebrated champion of the customer for so many years, Southwest Airlines really, really blew it at Christmas with a system meltdown that destroyed memories for thousands as over 3100 flights were canceled Christmas Day and over 5000 the next day. This is a reputation rattling that takes my emotions back to […]