The Resolute Woman

Category: friends

  • We’re thankful for family and friends

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    This Thanksgiving, Fayteen and I are thankful for many blessings. Most of all, we are thankful for our families and for friends who have become like family. Joy is especially thankful to have both of her college-student children home for the holiday. She’s thankful even though her son, Jay, a senior at the University of…

  • Count your blessings

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    Fayteen has spent many days recently worrying about her daughter, Ranna, who has been battling breast cancer, and Joy is feeling sad about the death of a very good friend. Many of you have had difficult days during this past year. However, during this Thanksgiving week, we are inspired by the story of Abraham Lincoln,…

  • Lunch with Ranna

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    Fayteen and I had lunch with Ranna recently. Lunch with friends is always pleasant, but I usually don’t stop to consider what a wonderful blessing it is to have good friends with whom I can share interesting conversation and delicious food. However, we did stop to count our blessings at this lunch. Ranna has been…

  • Add a little clutter to your life

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    My friend Patti liked the recent blog post I wrote about Roberta and how she collected a very large clutter of friends. “That article reminded me of my mom—who also had a large clutter of friends,” she wrote to me. Patti added some advice that we all should take: “Declutter  your home of things and…

  • A nudge from a friend

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    I recently spent almost four hours at a restaurant  having dinner and a lively conversation with my friend Patti. We didn’t solve all of the world’s problems, but I did get a nudge in the right direction from Patti on one of my own issues. Patti has been successful in getting rid of clutter by…

  • Add some happiness to your to-do list

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    I recently had a lot of excitement in my home office. The same day that my 21-year-old son Jay got an unexpected afternoon off from his summer job, my good friend Everett, age three,  came to visit. Everett, who usually travels with a baseball bat and ball, a football or a basketball, came equipped with…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…