If you know me, you know I’m a thinker. I love thinking. I do it all the time. I especially love thinking about puzzles and solving problems. This makes me good at my job but sometimes slows me down because I want to think about things from every angle, trying to go beyond the solution…
This week I read a Facebook post from a young friend who recently suffered a broken heart. She lamented for “someone to love me as much as I love them.” I think she’s setting her sights too low. I too longed for this kind of love as a young person. My family had been broken by addiction…
Tis the season for exchanges and returns. Retail stores often experience their busiest week of the year right after Christmas. Gifts that are the wrong size, color, or just not wanted are taken back to the store for exchange or return. During my years working in retail, I witnessed the purchase-return cycle countless times. A shopper searching…
My dad had a dream of living on a self sustaining farm. The spring before my seventh birthday, he bought a five acre homestead in central Illinois and moved our family there. We were surrounded by mega farms on all sides so it seemed to me as if we had moved to a small island in the middle of…