by Norma Thatcher | Sep 24, 2016 | Family, Home, Humor, Inspirational, Thought provoking
The magazine article was about a mom around my age who was trying to convince her 30-something daughter to take Great-Grandma’s set of good china that had been packed away in the attic for twenty years. Daughter wasn’t interested; Mom tried to guilt her into taking...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 13, 2016 | Humor, Thought provoking
Ah, the first hint of fall is in the air. As a favorite line of poetry goes, “…the air was ripe apples and the colors chrysanthemum.” But when I was 13, I knew autumn was around the corner when the Sears Roebuck fall catalog arrived. As I’ve shared before, I must have...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 3, 2016 | Home, Humor, Inspirational, Thought provoking
I kept just one memento from my former job: a plexiglas award from 2002 for Outstanding Finance Team Member. Wow. I hope you are duly impressed. At the office, the trophy sat in a large East-facing window. The morning light, having been bent twice by the prism edges,...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 27, 2016 | Healthy Living, Humor, Inspirational, Thought provoking
The twelve-page booklet is copyrighted 1963: 101 Ways to be More Attractive. The information was compiled by staff members of Patricia Stevens Career College and Finishing School in Chicago who referred to themselves as the “foremost authorities of beauty and charm.”...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 13, 2016 | Humor, Thought provoking
In 1991 I was at least twenty pounds overweight. I signed up for a nutrition/exercise program that I attended on my lunch hour a few times a week. At my first class, the instructor asked what I had eaten for lunch. “A hard-boiled egg and a slice of cheddar cheese,” I...
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...
