by Norma Thatcher | May 22, 2022 | Interesting information
Forbes Magazine says that the best leaders do this one rare thing. It just so happens to be what I did in last week’s post; share wisdom I had learned from others. So this is part 2 of that sharing. The biggest single determining factor of living a happy and...
by Norma Thatcher | Apr 3, 2022 | Family, Healthy Living, Interesting information, Music, Thought provoking
“I Love Classical Music” and “I Love the Nutcracker” have been two of my baby granddaughter’s favorite board books most of her 9 months of life. Both by Marion Billet, they each offer snippets of six selections of orchestra music. The sound is surprisingly good. Baby...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 27, 2022 | Interesting information, Music
Canadian musician, composer, arranger, and music producer David Foster may not be a name with whom you are readily familiar. He’s my age. He did make headlines in 2019 when he married Katharine McPhee, 2006 American Idol finalist who is my daughter’s age. They had a...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 6, 2022 | Interesting information, Music
Actress Donna Reed played Mary Bailey, the wife of George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), in the iconic 1946 movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Reed went on to play another wife and mother in an early television sitcom called “The Donna Reed Show” from 1958-1966. Shelley Fabares,...
by Norma Thatcher | Jan 29, 2022 | Interesting information, Spiritual
Psalm 23 is one of the most common funeral readings in America. And no wonder. Its soothing visions of green pastures and still waters, of a banquet table prepared for us, of our cups being so filled that they overflow, well, these are comforting thoughts and images...
by Norma Thatcher | Jan 15, 2022 | Interesting information, Love, Thought provoking
I’m beginning to believe I may have a fixation on hands. When I read an article on NextAvenue.org about elderly people usually being portrayed photographically in the media by just their hands, I knew I wanted to write about it. But then I recalled that I had written...