The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Does Buster really like me?

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    I have been feeding my neighbor’s beautiful green, yellow and red parrot while she’s gone on a trip. At first, Buster looked at me suspiciously with his small round eyes and didn’t say a thing. After a few days, when he figured out that I am the person appointed to provide him with bird food,…

  • Doing small things with love

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    My neighbor Linda has a wonderful success story. She started mentoring a boy from a poor family when he was in elementary school, continued to help him when he was in junior high and high school and watched him succeed in college. Primarily because of Linda’s urging, I volunteered to be a mentor at an…

  • Keep trying and trying

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    People are now reading Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help in 39 languages, and they will go to the theaters to see the movie in August. But Stockett, who spoke in Dallas on May 3, 2011, remembers when she was receiving rejection letters from agents. Lots of rejection letters. “If I had given up after 60…

  • With stops in Roswell, Jal and Big Spring

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    After I took the rest of my family to the Albuquerque airport for a quick trip back to Dallas, I stayed in New Mexico to take a more leisurely journey home. I stopped first in Roswell to visit Barbara, who has been a good friend since high school. We passed up the local McDonald’s, which…

  • Are you conscientious?

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    If you are conscientious, congratulations! One study indicates that conscientiousness could be “the best personality predictor of long life.” Called the Terman Project, the study is the subject of a new book by two professors—Howard S. Friedman at the University of California and Leslie R. Martin at La Sierra University. We read about the book,…

  • Need a new reason to lose 10 pounds?

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    Fayteen and I are now eating lots of fruits and vegetables for three reasons—two old reasons and one new reason. The first reason is that we want to look better. No, we don’t want to look like the anorexic, 20-something models in the fashion magazines. But, we do want to look our best and we…

  • We’re procrastinating again

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    We promised in an earlier blog post that we were going to stop writing about procrastinating  and spend our time doing some of the things we have been putting off. But we can’t resist procrastinating just long enough to share what we learned from an article in The New Yorker. Written by James Surowiecki for…

  • From nurse to mother to writer

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    What do you do when your son’s leaves home for his first day of kindergarten? Return to nursing or become a writer? Robin Oliviera had been a registered nurse who specialized in critical care and bone marrow transplants before she stayed home with her two children for five years. She loved nursing, but she also…

  • Courage, confidence and character

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    If you’re a Girl Scout or a Girl Scout leader, you know about courage, confidence and character. The mission of the Girl Scout movement today is to build “girls of courage, confidence and character.” We know that girls today face many challenges, said Colleen Walker, CEO of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, on April 16,…

  • Emma makes a good decision

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    I’m proud of my niece Emma, who  is a six-feet-tall basketball star and valedictorian of her high school class. I’m especially proud of a tough decision she just made. Emma, who wants to be a physician, applied to 11 colleges and was accepted by nine—from the University of San Francisco to the University of Connecticut.…