by Norma Thatcher | Apr 4, 2017 | Humor, Inspirational, Public speaking, Thought provoking
“As in water, face reflects face, so a person’s heart reveals the person.” Proverbs 28:19. One of my students experienced an epiphany last week; he realized he had been subverting his true personality since day one of public speaking class. For six separate classes,...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 1, 2017 | Healthy Living, Humor, Thought provoking
The booklet is copyrighted 1913 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. How to Live Long was written for the insurance company by Irving Fisher. Unless you’re an economist, you likely have never heard of the guy. Some say he was the first “celebrity” economist....
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 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...
by Norma Thatcher | Mar 7, 2017 | Family, Humor, Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
When my children were young readers, I’d go to the library near my work with a “shopping list.” Laura was into the Baby-sitters Club series, and Tim’s choice was the kid-scary books by R.L. Stine called Goosebumps. Thinking about the Stine series makes me consider...
