The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Things that don’t give me a boost

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    As soon as I made my list of things-to-do when I need a boost, I decided that I needed to make another list of things-not-to-do when I need a boost. As I explained in my last blog post, when I’m feeling a little low, a good book or a walk with my dog can make…

  • What can I do when I need a boost?

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    I have been feeling  in a funk. I checked the dictionary to make sure that “funk” was how I was feeling, and the dictionary defines funk as “a low, depressed mood.”  I concluded that I haven’t been in a big funk. Just a little funk. But then I started reading a good book—a good summer…

  • If it’s good advice, take it

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    My husband can’t resist giving a little advice to Jay, my 21-year-old son, a college student who is working and living at home this summer. Why is so much easier to notice when he is giving advice to Jay than it is to notice when I’m giving advice to Jay?  Why is it always easier…

  • Focus on what’s important

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    Fayteen is very busy now helping to take care of her daughter who is being treated for breast cancer and also trying to keep up with her real estate business. She is a wise woman, and she knows that it’s most important to focus on taking care of her daughter and keeping up with her…

  • Need more items on your to-do list?

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    I made three out-of-town trips recently. Then, just when I was beginning to feel recuperated, my son Jay arrived home from a camping trip at 11:15 p.m. one night, and I had to get up the next morning at 4:45 a.m. to drive my daughter from Dallas to Denton so that she could travel with…

  • Summon memories of your successes

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    Robin Oliveira tells the story of a very resolute midwife who wants to become a doctor in her book My Name is Mary Sutter. Because women weren’t supposed to become doctors during the 1860s, Mary Sutter volunteers to be a nurse during the Civil War. She mops the floors, washes sheets in boiling water in…

  • The best kind of clutter

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    I recently went to an estate sale at my good friend Roberta’s lovely yellow house. I smiled when I saw the shelves of books for sale. Roberta, who was a member of our book club, read nonstop. When our book group celebrated her 90th birthday, we decided to give Roberta 90 books. We all searched…

  • What can you do to help?

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    Shelley Lewis, in her book about breast cancer, which we mentioned in our last blog post, has some good suggestions for ways you can help a friend who has a major problem. In Five Lessons I didn’t Learn from Breast Cancer (And One Big One I Did), Lewis makes these suggestions. Don’t ask, “Is there…

  • Sometimes the goal is just to get through it

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    We’ve been thinking about Ranna, Fayteen’s daughter, who is being treated for breast cancer. Ranna has had some complications recently, and she had to spend several days in the hospital. She has had a tough time. That’s why I couldn’t help picking up Shelley Lewis’s book Five Lessons I Didn’t Learn from Breast Cancer (And…

  • Good neighbors and diabetic cats

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    I firmly believe that it’s important to be a good neighbor. I am always ready to volunteer to get a neighbor’s mail, water her plants or even feed her dog. But I hesitated when a neighbor asked me to take care of her diabetic cat. First, of course, she asked my daughter, who is well…