Tag Archives: life lessons
Leadership
We don’t recognize our own powers as women. We organically lead in our communities, we lead in our church, we lead in our workplace, we lead in our families. Too often we look to other people to lead in a … Continue reading
Lending Money to Family or Friends?
Use the loan as a teaching moment Early in their marriage, my son and daughter-in-law had trouble making their paychecks stretch — and started asking my hubby and me for money. I said yes with a couple of strings attached. … Continue reading
Life Lesson
Learning to let yourself care, to accept the pain that comes with seeing the people you love suffer, and to be OK with suffering yourself, is the first—maybe the biggest—lesson we all have to learn in life. Positively Purging-I welcome … Continue reading
The Three-Question Rule
Years ago, I was watching an interview with comedian Craig Ferguson. He made a funny joke that also proved to be remarkably insightful: “There are three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything,” Ferguson said. Ferguson quipped … Continue reading
Allowance
Getting an allowance as a child made me a better money manager, but for all the wrong reasons,” a Virginia reader wrote. “I was the oldest child and was given an allowance of $5 a week (1962-68) to cook for my … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 