by Norma Thatcher | Oct 4, 2019 | Inspirational, Interesting information
One of the many issues I studied while we were building our own house was that of interior lighting; how will the home be illuminated at the dimming of the day? Like most knowledge learned for a limited slot of time for a specific purpose, I’ve forgotten most of what...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 20, 2019 | Healthy Living, Interesting information
If you go online at all, I’m sure you’ve seen the hooks to get you to click on a story. You know…hooks like these: See for yourself why What’s-his-face’s last video is cringeworthy! Remember What’s-her-name? You won’t believe what she looks like now! When this...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 31, 2019 | Inspirational, Interesting information
Tomorrow is September 1st. Although we’re back to rather warm weather right now in northern Virginia, fall is not far behind. If you don’t believe me, just pop in to any store and you’ll find sugary-to-a-fault candy corn, costumes scary enough to make grown men wet...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 21, 2019 | Interesting information, Thought provoking, Words
I received my weekly report card from Grammarly yesterday. If you don’t already know, Grammarly is (according to their own website) “an online grammar checking, spell checking, and plagiarism detection platform for the English language developed by Grammarly, Inc.”...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 18, 2019 | Inspirational, Interesting information, Leadership, Thought provoking
Legendary Stanford professor Tina Seelig posed the following assignment to teams of students in one of her classes: How profitably can a team run a (very) short-term business with $5 in seed money? The team could spend as much time as they wanted in the planning...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 13, 2019 | Interesting information
One of the questions on the VA application for a REAL ID is this: Have you ever been found guilty of a crime other than parking violations? The phrasing indicated to me that the government wanted any speeding or moving violations included. So I had to fess up. Yes, I...
