by Christine | Dec 16, 2020 | Welcome Column
Perfection is such an alluring ideal. It’s something we should strive for, we are told. The problem with perfection is, it’s subjective. It’s a made up condition, that can never be attained. The pursuit of perfection is, then, a guarantee of failure. I prefer to say I...
by Christine | Sep 18, 2005 | Welcome Column
Once, when my youngest son Peter was just a little guy, he was playing ball inside the house and broke a window. I’d been out in my shop and didn’t hear the crash and Peter, not wanting to deal with the situation, just skipped over to a friend’s house to play. When I...
by Christine | Dec 15, 2016 | Welcome Column
Long about 1983, and still somewhat newlyweds, we were just doing the regular things young people do. Perhaps an unusual pairing (a city boy and a country girl), we were looking for journeys to start together. That summer, Lynn came to me with...
by Christine | Oct 13, 2009 | Welcome Column
Tomorrow, I’m going to a wedding. No, it’s not my wedding…I already did that once…it’s the wedding of one of our surrogate daughters. Sarah lived with us for approximately three years before moving out on her own. She was an interesting kid at times, but then I...
by Christine | Jan 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
What I’m doing these days is working on a transition from partially retired, (working two days per week) to completely retired (giving the whole damned thing up). It’s been hard. I’ve read, and I’m inclined to believe, that some people, folks with not the greatest...
by Christine | Jan 28, 2018 | Welcome Column
Retirement’s on my mind this morning. It’s because I posted a news item about Kathy Barwick’s up coming performances (see left column below) and that got me to thinking about how the really smart ones among us are able, with some good planning and...
