The Resolute Woman

Category: Joy

  • 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…

  • A little advice from Oletta Jones

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    I mentioned in an earlier blog post how much I was enjoying reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. CeeCee Honeycutt is 12-years-old when her mother, who has been mentally ill for years, dies. Fortunately, CeeCee’s great-aunt Tootie Caldwell rescues her and takes her to a Southern mansion in Savannah—“a perfumed world of prosperity and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…