Aptitude, Achievement, Processing Deficit - What Does It All Mean? You are sitting with the professionals who know about learning disabilities. They have been explaining what they will be looking for when they test your child."We look for an aptitude-achievement discrepancy as well as a processing deficit," one of them ...
Are Women Really Superior to Men? While doing my search for this idea, I came across something interesting on the web. At a hospital the relatives gathered in the waiting room, where a family member lay gravely ill. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and serious. Surveying the ...
Are You Afraid of Growing Older? Not long ago I received a note from a woman in her mid twenty’s expressing her fear of aging. She felt it was out of control and only keeping her from growing into the woman she is meant to be. She does not think poorly of older women, and in fact ...
Are You A Juicy Woman: 10 Juicy Morsels to Getting Healthy By taking steps to get healthier and become more active, you are definitely in the Juicy circle. Girl, you are so savvy realizing the importance of caring for yourself. You know that without taking care of yourself you won't have the energy to enjoy ...
Author Interview - Mommy Come Home Author Interview: Mommy Come HomeThe New Trend to Tradition: Bringing Up Your OwnInterview with Sandra Gillmore conducted by Lisa HendeyIn her new book Mommy Come Home, author Sandra Gillmore strongly advocates the role of “full-time motherhood”. Some may ...
A chance to say goodbye The passing of a legacy and a chance to say goodbye I still remember that day in May of 1989 as the ER doctor turned off the life support equipment and whispered the words that shook my life, "It's over, record the time of death." "He lost his mother ...
A Female Soldier's Last Battle I arrived at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 1974, in my 19th year, into the heart of the 82nd Airborne Division at the John F. Kennedy Center. The old timers called Fort Bragg “Little Hell.” The 82nd Airborne was the first to engage the enemy on land to ...
A Great Gift for Any Special Girl in Your Life A Great Gift for Any Special Girl in Your LifeBook Review – How to Help Your Hurting Friend by Susie ShellenbergerReviewed by Lisa M. HendeyHow to Help Your Hurting Friend (Zondervan, February 2004, paperback, 176 pages) is the type of book I wish someone ...
A look at men, women and marriage; can it work ? A look at men, woman and marriageCan it work ??Over the past several weeks I’ve observed a disturbing trend concerning the friends that I’ve accrued over the years as well as the acquaintances I’ve made at work. My observation is thus; none of them are ...
A Mommy Moment This is going to sound strange, not being a mommy but having a “mommy moment”; it sounds strange to me too! So, let me take you back a few years so I can explain.When my nephew was 2 years old (he’s now 10), I offered to babysit him one day a week so I ...
A New School Year Depending on where you live school will be starting this month or next month. A new school year is usually exciting and scary at the same time. Most children won’t admit it, but they are ready to get back to school and see their friends. As much as I ...
A Principled Plan BENEFICENT PATERNALISM REVISITED: The motivations of those in power must be evident and ethical. That was the case when the ruling body of the Keltic clandoms of Atlantis (NW Europe and islands of the Mediterranean as well as missions in the Americas and ...
A Recipe For Friendship What determines friendship? What ingredients are necessary for a true friendship to hold forth? Is it someone who calls you on the phone a few times a week? Or someone who goes for morning runs with you? How about someone you share a meal with once a week ...
A Rocker For All Ages Rocking chairs have survived the test of many generations and a million sleepless nights. They come in fine wood, soft supple upholstery and even woven and painted. Yes, they all, each and every one of them, find a way into someone's memory, a plesant ...
A Shift in Focus It’s a pretty well established fact that our genetics combined with the influences of our family and environment provide the foundation for how we think and act in our adult years. I call it programming. Not necessarily in a bad sense – it frequently ...
Wine wisdom in Los Angeles Los Angeles Times, CA - Dec 2, 2008 Restaurants can be great places to explore vintages, thanks to proprietors' expertise, passion and respect for customers' budgets. By S. IRENE VIRBILA, ...
The Wisdom Of Crowds--In Ancient Greece Forbes, NY - 49 minutes ago What was the role of mass collective wisdom upon popular morality--or how do we assess the notion of democratic success? Did an empowered Athenian citizenry ...
Colorado likely in recession, DU researchers say Bizjournals.com, NC - 13 hours ago “The conventional wisdom is that Colorado has tended to lag other states in entering a recession,” said Tom Dunn, a CCEF researcher, in a statement. ...
