by Norma Thatcher | Jul 23, 2016 | Humor
About fifteen years ago I stepped way outside my comfort zone: I auditioned for a lead role in a community theater play. Up to that point my acting career consisted of having been the main character in an elementary school Christmas play. The big moment for me as a...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 19, 2016 | Humor, Inspirational
I was about eight when my family discovered I could play the piano by ear; that is, I could pick out a tune without reading any sheet music. My grandmother Elizabeth had a piano that my father had bought for her. Grandma and I had just finished watching a television...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 16, 2016 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
I wonder why we are so surprised by death. Every single person alive at this moment will eventually die. Your chance, and mine, of living on this earth forever is literally (and I mean that in the truest sense of the word) non-existent. Yet we continue to be caught...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
A company held a large renewable government contract. Each quarter the agency sent a new purchase order to buy against with a not-to-exceed limit of $999,999. So if the agency didn’t purchase more than a million dollars during that three month period, the company’s...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 9, 2016 | Inspirational
Even though we may have forgotten more than we recall of our 10th grade English lit class, some of us have retained enough memory of the William Shakespeare section to recognize the blog title reference to his play Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo’s soliloquy about his...
