On Saturday, the first day of October, I pulled the rest of my monthly to-dos from my pretty little box. I had three left. And I knew what two of them were for sure. Find a professional photographer for my next book's headshot. And finish my second book. And, well, you and I both know …
Category: Sharing Wisdom
Monitoring Your To-Do Lists
The thing about to-dos is they never end. Amazingly, there's always one more thing to do. When I pulled this month's to-do on Monday, August 1st, I was excited. When I saw "start working on Christmas cards," I thought, yay, I can get a head start on the holidays. It will be a lot easier …
When the Seasons Change So Do Our Lives
From Winter into Spring I have known for a while now that when the seasons change so do our lives. And it’s not just about the foods we eat and the clothes we wear. It’s about how we feel as the temperatures rise or fall. It’s about how we embrace or resist the daylight or …
Hello 2022: Setting Goals
It's the new year, and I have a lot of ideas, dreams, goals, and things to accomplish in this year of 2022. Many of them are related to my book writing, publishing, and marketing. But some are related my fitness, my travel plans to visit family and friends, and to our move from this dilapidated …
2021: A Year in Retrospect
As I thought about this blog post, the one to round out 2021, I took a look at my photo gallery. It was illuminating, refreshing, and realigning to see all that had occurred over the past twelve months. And as I pondered these hundreds (or thousands) of photos, I decided to focus on four things …
Integrity: Communicating With Honesty
Last month I named the title of this blog post without fully knowing the guts of it. I usually have a good idea of what the post will be about and keep it close in thought. However, a lot has happened in the last month to affect my thinking on the topic. A more appropriate …
Are You Too Accepting?
Last month I blogged about how acceptance of self is important and a good thing. Today's blog post is on how being too accepting can be a bad thing. There are many ways to be accepting or not to be accepting, and either way can be good, or not so good, depending on the subject …
Integrity & The Little White Lie
Do you know what happens when we tell a little white lie? That is, besides the rise in blood pressure and the "looking over your shoulder" part? Is telling a little white lie as harmless as it seems? And are little white lies okay some of the time or not at all? Or does it …
Acceptance Starts With Accepting Me
I've been thinking about acceptance a lot lately. Perhaps this is due to all the reports of bias and prejudice in the news or, simply, because I know this is the topic of my blog this weekend. Either way, I have decided that, if I'm going to speak and share about acceptance, I need to …
Virginia Alice Crawford 