by Norma Thatcher | Sep 9, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
From the time my daughter was old enough to know the concept of the word friend until the age of twelve, she was best friends with the daughter of my best friend. The only obstacle to this four-way friendship was that our families lived two hundred miles apart. When...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 29, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking, Words
Now don’t get upset; you know I’m not THAT kind of a writer. But my guess is that as soon as you read the phrase F word in this post’s title, some of your minds went there. And that’s the word I’m using to typify just the BAD descriptive. It is, after all, a...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 19, 2017 | Inspirational, Leadership, Love, Public speaking, Thought provoking
I know this may shock you, but here goes. I am still a Facebook novice. By myself I created a website for my dog, but I still struggle with Facebook. Is anyone else feeling the irony of that? Have you ever joined an on-going exercise or dance class, and for at least a...
by Norma Thatcher | Aug 5, 2017 | Family, Home, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual
If you’ve ever attended Sunday School or Christian education, you likely have heard the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The younger son of a wealthy man wanted to live an adventurous life. So he asked his father for his share of what would be his inheritance when his...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 29, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual
Mindfulness is an essential part of living a benevolent life full of caring and the fulfillment it brings. As part of my recent training to be a hospital volunteer, I had the opportunity to attend their two day orientation. One entire day was spent on the culture of...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 25, 2017 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Thought provoking
Remember one of the famous lines from the 1946 movie It’s a Wonderful Life: “Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.” Well, at our local hospital, every time a baby makes his/her way into the world, the hospital plays the first stanza of Brahms’ Lullaby...