The other day I was going through some bins in my closet and found an old t-shirt from a high school football camp that I went to. As I was looking at it, I thought “do I really need this?” and thinking about just decluttering and possibly throwing things away, or giving them away, I […]
baby, dress, football, high school, mementos, memories, mother, photos
Someone sent me a thank you card that has Charlie Brown and Snoopy on it, and it represents so well the easy comfort and compatibility that Charlie Brown had with Snoopy his dog, and probably his best friend. If you have someone in your life who you feel that same thing about, that same sense […]
card, charlie brown, snoopy, thank you card
Somebody was complaining to my father about a friend who was disappointing them quite a bit over a pretty long period of time. My father listened to all the examples they gave and considered it for a bit and then said three words, “Find another friend.” It was an example of my father’s purely logical […]
advice, approach, father, Friend, logical
I have an audiobook app that I stopped subscribing to a few years ago because I wasn’t keeping up with the books I had downloaded. And a few days ago, I was sort of scanning through the library to see if there were books I hadn’t yet read, and I was surprised that there were […]
audiobook, Business, unfinished business
In the wonderful movie, The Princess Bride, the character Wesley is thought to be dead, and people close to him bring him to Miracle Max, played by Billy Crystal, who examines Wesley’s body and announces much to their surprise that he’s only mostly dead, which is still a little alive. It’s a wonderful metaphor to […]
alive, metaphor, princess bride
On a group video meeting the other day, one colleague noticed that another had a Christmas tree in the corner of her office that was fully decorated. It was well past Christmas, and she told us that the tree is up in her office all year, and she seasonally changes out the decorations on it. […]
christmas, christmas tree, Joy, tree
Our office telephone number is one digit away from two physicians’ offices, and we often get calls and voicemail messages from people who have medical questions or want prescription refills. I always talk to those folks when they call, and I always return the messages when they’re left on my voicemail because I think it’s […]
call, phone, phone call, wrong number
Barnes and Noble had opened a new bookstore in Center City, Philadelphia and it’s part of a plan to open 30 new bookstores. The interesting thing about the design of this store, and the company’s new direction, is to focus more on book things that are important to people in the local areas, where the […]
barnes and nobles, book, books, read
In a business journal published by the Wharton School, they looked back at two studies that had to do with whether money can buy happiness. And in looking back and reconsidering the data that was there, the takeaway was that if somebody is already happy, more money can make them happier and if somebody is […]
happiness, job, wharton
I was looking up a quotation in a book called “How Shall I Say It” for a piece that I was writing and when I opened this book up, I realized it had belonged to my grandfather, and the author of the book had written an inscription to my grandfather in here. The author, Ross […]
book, keep smiling, ross stover, smile, temple, temple university