by Norma Thatcher | Jul 22, 2017 | Family, Humor, Inspirational, Leadership, Thought provoking
I have a low latent inhibition level. It sounds a lot sexier than what it actually means. But I’m happy to have learned that I have it, so no need to send me a get well card. And thank the Lord there is NO cure for it. The July/August issue of Discover magazine from...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 18, 2017 | Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual, Thought provoking, Words
You don’t hear it used much in this context any longer, but feeling cross means being cranky, grumpy, or grouchy. It implies a general feeling of annoyance. One source cites it as being used mainly with children. Another source says it’s British English, as in, “You...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 15, 2017 | Inspirational, Leadership, Thought provoking
Many people attending physical therapy have a love/resent relationship with their therapist. We love her for helping us to recover, to regain a range of motion, or just plain reach the status quo our body was in before injury or surgery. But oh how we resent them...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 11, 2017 | Inspirational, Leadership, Thought provoking
Some of them are easy and can be made in a split second. Others we wrestle with for days, weeks, or sometimes months and years. We agonize over coming to a decision. Yes or no? Should I or shouldn’t I? Do I leap or stay in place? The thing is, when we don’t decide,...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 8, 2017 | Inspirational, Leadership, Thought provoking
At a recent business “speed-dating” event sponsored by Warrenton Regional Chamber (of Commerce), members had the opportunity to spend ten minutes with individual professionals in the fields of law, insurance, social media, and marketing. In my time with Liz Johnson of...
by Norma Thatcher | Jun 24, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Leadership, Thought provoking
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (WAVES) was created when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Navy Women’s Reserve Act into law in July 1942. A woman serving in the military is familiar to us now. But in the 1940s it was not. When I asked my Aunt...