by Norma Thatcher | Feb 13, 2018 | Public speaking, Words
In my role as a speech coach and presentation skills instructor, I’m on a never-ending hunt for new material and ideas. Not willing to rely primarily on old standard public speaking instruction, I search for new studies on how a speaker can best engage with an...
by Norma Thatcher | Feb 10, 2018 | Healthy Living, Humor, Thought provoking, Words
It cracks me up when one study comes out with a “finding” and suddenly various news outlets begin touting the new “evidence” as scientific gospel. Case in point: In July 2015 a study from Tokyo was presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of...
by Norma Thatcher | Oct 31, 2017 | Spiritual, Thought provoking, Words
Today is All Hallows Eve in preparation of All Saints Day tomorrow. Well, it is at least to Episcopalians and Roman Catholics and some other Christian denominations. It’s a holy day celebrating the saints. But most people are focused on Halloween. I recall when we...
by Norma Thatcher | Oct 14, 2017 | Humor, Thought provoking, Words
Are you old enough to remember when we used a real dictionary to look up a word’s spelling or definition? I used to get lost in the dictionary because I’d find other interesting words and would jump from one to another. Well, something similar happens to me now when...
by Norma Thatcher | Sep 16, 2017 | Inspirational, Spiritual, Thought provoking, Words
When a word or topic crosses my path half a dozen times in a short span of time, I know it’s presenting itself to me to be written about. Silence isn’t something we spend much time considering. Some of us are uncomfortable with it in the presence of another, and we...
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...