choices – Maddie's Mom Writes

Fear In Advertising

I recently read a post by a very perspicacious WordPress blogger. It was about the power of curiosity to motivate. It got me to thinking. Really good writing and really good posts do that to me. My husband and I haven’t watched broadcast television in a very long time. We don’t stream either. We getContinue reading “Fear In Advertising”

Feelings

One key to creating a better life is to choose what you want to feel, and for how long you want to feel it. This means taking responsibility for what you feel. No more “He made me so mad” or “Don’t make me regret this.” The first time someone explained this to me was aContinue reading “Feelings”

What to do in the Days to Come

I wrote about hard choices yesterday. It was prompted by a scenario that is unlikely to ever happen to me. Thank goodness. But I thought the whole issue of hard choices was very appropriate to the current situation. I’ve asked myself what I would do if I thought someone near me might be sick withContinue reading “What to do in the Days to Come”

Hard Choices

Sometimes when I am at a loss for something to write about, I turn to “The Book of Questions” by Gregory Stock, PH.D. I open it at random (or my best approximation of random because I’ve opened it so many times that some pages come up more often than others) and see if the questionContinue reading “Hard Choices”