by Norma Thatcher | Mar 28, 2017 | Inspirational, Leadership, Public speaking, Thought provoking
Assigning homework to adult students has its own strings attached. These are adults who work full-time jobs, have family responsibilities, and handle other aspects of a full life. Who wants to add homework to an already over-scheduled week? So while as the instructor...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 25, 2017 | Humor, Inspirational, Public speaking, Thought provoking, Uncategorized
When I start a new class of students, I like to create an atmosphere of trust between everyone. One exercise to accomplish this is for each person to share something about themselves in a couple of sentences that may not be common knowledge. I explain that I’m not...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 21, 2017 | Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
I’m not the “plant person” in the family; my husband is. It usually works like this: I find something I like, he plants it and cares for it while I sit back and enjoy it. Hey, it works for us. The Better Homes and Garden magazine of February 2011 featured an article...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 18, 2017 | Family, Humor, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
One of my big projects for 2016 was something I had put off for years: making for my family eight individually-specific memory books of my son Tim who died in 2008. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to perform this labor of love, you understand. It just seemed...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 14, 2017 | Healthy Living, Humor, Inspirational, Public speaking, Thought provoking, Words
Professional football players don’t show up at the stadium fifteen minutes before the game, suit up, and then run onto the field, waiting for the referee to blow the starting whistle. Singers don’t arrive backstage at the concert arena and immediately walk up to the...
