Browsing Category 'Life Design'
If you have been watching the comparison of this year’s weather in North Central Texas to the worst years our area has had to offer in recorded history, you know this has been a challenging one. Let me give those of you living at a remove an idea: when 103 degrees is a perceptible cool-down, [...]
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Domestic art can speak with a larger voice. Bronwen Salton has taken the plastic art of crochet and brought immediacy to the effects of what we often thoughtlessly discard. “Using waste as a medium also lends an embedded meaning to the work. It speaks of our relation to the environment and our relation to art. [...]
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This will be quick: Pink Parade miniature roses to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. In DFW, currently at Tom Thumb. (Even on sale. Wow.) Your local provider may vary, but it never hurts to help. Go look and give your karma and your yard a boost!
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I hear a lot of people whine about lack of time, and I have a lot of people ask me about getting things done. I recall an office mate once saying to me, “Whenever I come into your office, nothing seems to be happening, yet everything always seems to get done.” Now, over the years, [...]
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I think I got a personal telegram from God this weekend. It read: “Mike, get on with it!” The source of the reminder was a couple of phone calls. One on Saturday informed me that the husband of a new distributor in my organization had just dropped dead at the age of 53. This morning [...]
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Yesterday I read the following in the New York Times article titled “Americans Worried About Flu’s Impact on Finances“: …while most adults are not overly concerned about their own health or that of their families, they are worried about the financial hit they will take if illness or school closings keep them home from work, [...]
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As I was poking about to check for water requirements at mid-day, I spied something just under the mulch in one of the front beds: a single leaf of a Gerbera daisy that we had taken for dead. Even though I know it’s only a single plant, when we take it into our environment, make [...]
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