Month: September 2003

Are you helping or rescuing? It is sometimes difficult to realize when the line has been crossed, especially with loved ones. However, always stepping in and cleaning up the mistakes our children make is destructive rescuing. Certainly at times it is appropriate to help a bit – as long as in the process our help…

They lied. Every time Brenda Robinson called to check on her grandson, 3-year-old Tavian Johnson on Sept. 11., the staff at the Smart Start Learning Center Day care in North Little Rock lied. They told her he was fine. “Are you sure he’s doing fine?” a twinge of something nudged Robinson to ask a second…

For seven years, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon tramped all over Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth and never found it. He was so close, too. He was just looking in the wrong place. He should have looked inside his sneakers. At least that’s my take on recently released studies regarding the benefits of…

After all these years of writing, I thought I had a handle on the English language. Then, while my husband was off helping my son remodel his home in New Orleans, I impetuously agreed to accept an Asian exchange student for the school year. She spent her first month in America at language school refining…

Every where I turned that week the message was the same, “Change is good, it provides growth, insight, experience and opportunities to try out new things.” I knew all that, but I really did not want to be reminded right then – we were considering a major change in our lives: a new job for…