by Norma Thatcher | Apr 17, 2018 | Inspirational, Thought provoking
When I worked in the credit management field, I met with my peers from our company’s competitors for a monthly lunch meeting. That may sound counterintuitive, but for credit management in the foodservice sector, it was not only a good idea but a long-standing...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 15, 2018 | Family, Thought provoking
Actor Tom Hanks has an unusual interest: typewriters. NPR actually refers to his interest as a “well-documented obsession.” Hanks wrote the forward to a book titled (appropriately enough) Typewriters: Iconic Machines from the Golden Age of Mechanical Writing by...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 10, 2018 | Inspirational, Spiritual
I enjoy challenges since they keep my neural networks fired up and making new connections. So when our Priest Associate asked us three Old Testament readers for the Easter Vigil service to forego reading our lesson this year and instead “tell the story in our own...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 7, 2018 | Inspirational, Spiritual
A magical musical event happened around me recently. An offering had arrived via email to attend a concert by the Vanderbilt Chorale at a small, local venue. The tickets were $10 per person. How could I pass up that? The one-night concert, however, was March 3, the...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 4, 2018 | Family, Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
At a recent Jimmy Fortune concert (Fortune was one of the Statler Brothers), my husband was enthralled with the old song The Far Side Banks of Jordan. I wasn’t familiar with it, but then my husband is more of a gospel music fan than I am. When he talked about the song...
