by Norma Thatcher | Nov 5, 2016 | Humor, Inspirational, Spiritual
Until yesterday I had forgotten what it’s like for a speaker to have an audience who acts up. From the moment I joined them, they were all over me. Literally. It was my first day as a volunteer reader at Head Start. As I sat on the area rug with them, two of...
by Norma Thatcher | Nov 1, 2016 | Family, Inspirational, Spiritual
I’ve visited Fallingwater, the architectural masterpiece by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, half a dozen times. Each time, I see something new or absorb a different slant on an aspect I noted previously. If you’ve never seen it, you owe it to yourself to take the tour....
by Norma Thatcher | Oct 25, 2016 | Healthy Living, Inspirational, Spiritual
I was listening to a rebroadcast of a 1948 radio show. It was still quite funny. But I was bothered by the old commercials that were included from the original show. Here’s basically what they said. Ladies! Why have dingy skin when you can have beautiful skin by...
by Norma Thatcher | Oct 22, 2016 | Family, Inspirational, Spiritual
The year my son Tim was three, super heroes were popular at our house. One day I heard Laura, then six, say to Tim, “OK, we’ll play. You be He-Man and I’ll be your mother.” Tim’s baffled response was, “He-Man doesn’t need a mudder.” And Laura said, “Of course...
by Norma Thatcher | Oct 8, 2016 | Family, Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking
Here’s what I had in common with my Dad: Both Virgos, highly organized, liked poetry. Dad once gave me his worn copy of The Best Loved Poems of the American People. I wrote poetry when I was a young woman. Then it seemed that the sadder I felt, the better my poetry...
by Norma Thatcher | Jul 16, 2016 | Family, Inspirational, Love, Spiritual, Thought provoking
I wonder why we are so surprised by death. Every single person alive at this moment will eventually die. Your chance, and mine, of living on this earth forever is literally (and I mean that in the truest sense of the word) non-existent. Yet we continue to be caught...
