An article that appeared in The Dallas Morning News was particularly fascinating because the author was writing about Vitamin A (for affection) which is advocated by Inez Bloomingdale who is the owner and director of Miss Bloomingdale's Academy, a child care center in Las Colinas.
Recently, as I was driving from the airport to my home, I was listening to a call-in radio program hosted by an African American minister who is working to improve race relations. He was gently reminding us that throughout our history black people have suffered tremendously as a result of racism.
The best thing we can do with regrets of the past is bury them. I mention this because Bruce DeHaven, who coached for the Buffalo Bills 1987-1999, as well as Scott Norwood (played 1985-1991), who missed the field goal in Super Bowl XXV, have a picture indelibly burned into their minds.
“Happiness” is high on the list of what everybody wants. Many people maintain they will be happy "when" - they get the new house, but they won't. Then they will be happy when they get it completely furnished - but they won't. They'll be happy when they have added the playroom, but they won't. Next, they'll be happy when the mortgage is paid off - but they won't. There are many people who will be happy "when" - they are able to take that vacation in Hawaii - but they won't, because it doesn't make any difference where you go, there you are.
A wise person once said that we teach people what we know, but we reproduce what we are. The prophet of long ago taught that the student is not above the teacher, but that the teacher has not taught until the student becomes as the teacher. Yet another person says that "people will not always believe what you say but they will always believe what you do.
Speaker/author Mamie McCullough tells this story. Several years ago as she started the school year, second-grade teacher Frances Hurst of Rayville Parish, Rayville, Louisiana, was told that she had the "middle" class of students. At that time, all the students were grouped in either "low," "middle" or "high.
One morning as I sat at my desk, I spotted a large hawk in the willow tree behind my home. There were two or three small birds, which I believe were sparrows, driving that hawk nuts! He would get comfortably situated and one of them would dive at him, quickly followed by another.
From childhood ice cream has been my favorite dessert. Coming from a large family and raised during the Depression, we had an occasional "churn" of ice cream on Sunday afternoon. We didn't get much at a serving, so that made it particularly enjoyable.
I'm a Margaret Thatcher fan. The job she did as Prime Minister of Great Britain was magnificent. She turned the economy around, helped restore pride and gave a sense of purpose and direction to her people.
Margaret Thatcher is a lady of unimpeachable credentials, including an iron will and a strong moral foundation.
The last thing you put into your mind before you go to sleep is going to be most firmly lodged into your subconscious mind and will affect your thinking and your sleeping. It also affects your creativity and your outlook on life. Despite this fact and the fact that much of the evening news is negative, millions of Americans watch the evening news and then go to bed hoping for a good night's sleep.
Does TV really influence behavior? The producers say no; common sense, the government, research studies and the overwhelming majority of people apply common sense and say yes. Thorough behavioral study conclusively proves that what you put into your mind affects how you think and, consequently, how you act.
Dwayne Pingston is paralyzed from the waist down - but not immobilized anywhere. In 1983, when he was only nineteen years old, he avoided a head-on collision by swerving sharply to his right. In the process he hit the shoulder of the road and was thrown from the car.