by Norma Thatcher | Aug 25, 2019 | Inspirational, Prayers, Spiritual
During my final year of commuting to work, I passed by the same young teen waiting for his school bus. He was a lone soul at that bus stop. The thought that I should pray for him popped into my head one day. So I did, calling him Bus Stop Boy in my mind since I didn’t...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 21, 2019 | Interesting information, Thought provoking, Words
I received my weekly report card from Grammarly yesterday. If you don’t already know, Grammarly is (according to their own website) “an online grammar checking, spell checking, and plagiarism detection platform for the English language developed by Grammarly, Inc.”...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 18, 2019 | Inspirational, Interesting information, Leadership, Thought provoking
Legendary Stanford professor Tina Seelig posed the following assignment to teams of students in one of her classes: How profitably can a team run a (very) short-term business with $5 in seed money? The team could spend as much time as they wanted in the planning...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 13, 2019 | Interesting information
One of the questions on the VA application for a REAL ID is this: Have you ever been found guilty of a crime other than parking violations? The phrasing indicated to me that the government wanted any speeding or moving violations included. So I had to fess up. Yes, I...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 10, 2019 | Interesting information
After I wrote about Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House on the Prairie book series, one of my readers commented: “WHO DIDN’T LOVE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE?!” Well, as it turns out, the Board of the Association for Library Service to Children. After Wilder’s...
