The Resolute Woman

Category: holidays

  • The imperfect? An Old Year’s Resolution

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    Last year, as I put up the Christmas wreath and decorated the Christmas tree, I vowed to clean house, get rid of the clutter and be ready to celebrate the next Christmas in a pristine house. I didn’t do it. I still have too much stuff in my house. However, I am not going to…

  • The status quo? An Old Year’s resolution

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    Yikes! It’s December. I was standing in the middle of a department store surrounded by Christmas decorations and Christmas cards and Christmas presents when I remembered that I have not achieved all of my New Year’s resolutions. What am I going to do? I am going to make three Old Year’s resolutions for December. Not…

  • Happy Fourth of July

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    I’ve been worried recently about the health of Bob, my brother-in-law, the situations in Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine and several minor issues. Maybe that’s why I couldn’t believe the headline in the June 28, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News. The headline, as a teaser across top of the front page, read: “Take…

  • I cheated on Valentine’s

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    Yes, I admit that I cheated on Valentine’s Day. I bought my daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a book of beautiful poems called Dog Songs by Mary Oliver for a Valentine’s Day present, and I read the entire book before I gave it to her. This is the poem I liked best. Percy, Waiting for Ricky Your…

  • Back to the regular routine

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    Holidays are wonderful—or mostly wonderful, but it’s good, too, to return to the regular routine. I’m looking forward to whatever happens during the new year. I like the Rainer Maria Rilke quote on a greeting card I received: “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” –Joy

  • Our New Year’s diet

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    We always make a New Year’s resolution to eat healthier. After the holidays is a good time to stock up on fruits and vegetables. As anonymous once said, “People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New…

  • Resolve to be happy

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    We’re going to follow Helen Keller’s advice and resolve to be happy during 2014. “Your success and happiness lies in you,” Helen Keller said. “Resolve to be happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

  • Be resolute with your resolutions

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    It was anonymous who said: “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.” You don’t have to make your resolutions today or tomorrow. You don’t have to make big changes. Little changes are fine. Think carefully. Make a few resolutions. Then, be resolute and keep them.

  • The best day of the year

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    I’m feeling a little too full, a little tired, a little depressed after Christmas is over. But I’m keeping in mind a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” –Joy

  • How to keep Christmas

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    Wouldn’t it be great if we could keep our Christmas spirit all year long? Here’s some advice on how we can “keep Christmas” from writer Henry Van Dyke. “Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children, to remember the weaknesses and loneliness of people who are growing old,…