Tag Archives: optimism
The Post I Didn’t Write
Friends, this is the first blog post I have written from the spare room in my mother’s house in which I will be living for the foreseeable future. I have mentioned a few times that I would have to be moving out of the (rather unpleasant) apartment in which I have been living for the last …
AuGuest: My Response to Zoyah
On Monday, Zoyah started off AuGuest 2011 with her thoughts on bitterness and how to overcome same. Read that post first, if you haven’t already. I admire the post, because I see the value in the advice. No logical argument can be made against the notion of avoiding extended bitterness, and for choosing instead to be, as …
AuGuest Post: Too Bitter, by Zoyah Thawer
Not everyone is a jerk-wad loser! For those of you who know me, you know that I’m a glass-half-full type of gal; oftentimes, the glass isn’t even half-full, so much as overflowing. So I’m an optimist: so what? I’m not delusional; I just think it’s more fun to go through life with a smile on your face! After all, …
Our Mental Tornadoes and Positive Thinking
For several hours this morning my county was hit with a rolling collection of severe storms, each of which had pretty good potential to produce a tornado. (And a few of them did.) That means we were under a “tornado warning” (one is imminent or has been spotted) from 4:30AM until about 10:00AM. Nothing as …
Not for Love or Money: A Better Way to Choose a Career, by Jen Gresham
When I decided to leave the military after 16 years of service, just four years short of the necessary time to collect a retirement check at the ripe age of 42, people thought I was nuts. What in the world couldn’t be endured for just four more years with a payout like that? What made …
