Archive for the ‘Releationships – general’ Category

May the Force be With You or Dealing with Difficult In-Laws

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

“May the Force be With You” – from the movie – Star Wars (1977) has been a quote worth reckoning with for years. This title either made you laugh out loud or touches a tender cord in your inner being as you think of difficult people in your life. If you’re married, ever have been, […]

My Front Porch Looking in

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Have you even taken the time to look inside your house from the outside? I mean really just stopped to take a look inside?

I was listening to the radio again today on the way to a meeting when the country song, My Front Porch Looking In came on. LoneStar sings about finally owning a little piece of land where he can see the sun rise and the moon lay on the fences.

He then does something that, I suspect, many of us have not taken the time to do. He turns his head and takes a look inside to see what it looks like there. It’s in that moment that he sees the most beautiful view he says he’ll ever see…a family he adores a woman he loves.

While many of us do not fit the bill of the traditional family and we may even live alone, what does the inside of our home say about us?

Deck the Halls

Friday, November 24th, 2006

The turkey is eaten, the relatives have likely gone, and you have a few days on your hands after a busy holiday. For some of us, that means getting up to shop at five a.m. tomorrow morning so we can get a head start on our holiday shopping list. For others of us, it means […]

They’re Here!

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

There are many quotes from the movies that have stuck with us thought the years. We use them when the time is appropriate. The movie Poltergeist (1982) had a particularly interesting saying that has stuck with many people. Though the movie is definitely not a “holiday movie” the saying can be appropriate around the holidays. […]

Carolina in my Mind

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

As Thanksgiving approaches rapidly the song – Carolina in My Mind – is racing around inside my head. I think it may have started when I went to the James Taylor concert recently. It was one of the last songs he sang. In the song, James says he thinks he hears the highway calling and […]