Freedom through defeat. I have never been good at tests. I’ve never been blessed with succeeding at anything—the first time. Everything I have ever been successful at doing, came as a result of repeated failures, repeated humiliation, and not giving up. I experience...
Anyone who has recently heard me speak has heard of my Patched Quilt. A beautiful quilt comprised of ten (10) pieces that make up the fabric of my life.
Multitasking. Distraction. Multitasking is REALLY overrated. There is a great article in one of my legal monthly periodicals titled, “Work, Interrupted: Distractions are Costing You and Your Law Firm.” While the focus of the article is on lawyers and distraction,...
The fall season is slowly on its way. So let me ask you all a question. How are you doing on the resolutions and goals you set for yourself back in January? Sad to say, but human nature seems to be that if things don’t happen quickly enough or it becomes a struggle to...
For years I hated the word addiction because I felt it connoted an immorality that didn't apply to me, a level of depravity that seemed like an overstatement. In time I let go of my dislike of the label and realized that regardless of what I called it - a habit,...
Well-Being. Victim. One way to greater sense of well-being is to let go of the victim mentality. The greater your sense of well-being, the less you choose to give power to the victim mentality. The unabridged version of the Random House Dictionary of the English...
The Serenity Prayer says, "Grant me the serenity to accept the thing I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Sometimes it doesn't feel as if we have choices, but in truth we almost always do. An acquaintance of...
Blame Mothers. When I was a kid and told that I looked like my mother, I'd cringe with pain at the thought that we were actually cut from the same cloth. At eighteen, I ran away from home. I would have left sooner, but when I was a minor, she could bring me home; I...
NDSS I recently came across an article on The Washington Post about New York native Kayla McKeon, who is the first Congress lobbyist with Down Syndrome. She’s worked in Congress part-time for the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) since October 2017. What moved me...