by Norma Thatcher | Jun 1, 2019 | Inspirational, Love, Thought provoking
When my children were young, my sister Beverly traveled extensively with her husband as he performed custom brick-laying across the country. She usually mailed my kids postcards from each new town. And before cell phones changed everyday life, when we vacationed at...
by Norma Thatcher | May 21, 2019 | Inspirational, Interesting information, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
To paraphrase a favorite line of poetry, “Even after all this time, I can still hear the sounds of him not being here.” When a family member, a favorite someone, or even a beloved pet dies we remember him or her in countless ways. Many people believe that sight is the...
by Norma Thatcher | May 18, 2019 | Inspirational, Thought provoking
Hustle is one of those words whose meaning has evolved from a negative one to a positive one in the business world. The original meaning implied a fraud or a swindler or forcing someone to move fast and unceremoniously in a direction they may not have wanted to go. In...
by Norma Thatcher | May 14, 2019 | Inspirational, Professional Image, Public speaking
For nearly a decade when I was in my 40s, I was involved in the Virginia segment of Business and Professional Women Clubs, Inc. (BPW). Unbelievably, the group was founded way back in 1919. The tagline of the current iteration of the group is, “Developing the business,...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 27, 2019 | Inspirational, Spiritual, Words
One of my favorite wall calendars of all time featured photos of some of the stained glass works of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933). As Macklow Gallery eloquently states on their website, Tiffany “forged a unique style that combined superb craftsmanship with a love...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 23, 2019 | Inspirational, Interesting information, Spiritual
Non-English speakers learning our language face a common hurdle: idioms. A strange word in and of itself, an idiom is defined as “a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.” So cats and dogs are not...
