Tag: accomplishments

• Salty Cookies, Burnt Cereal, and Learning Curves

    My mom worked in Madison during most of my growing up years.  She compensated for not being around home to supervise me as much as she would like by suggesting projects for me to do by myself, especially during the summer. One project was learning to bake cookies. One of the first times I…

  Marian

  October 22, 2012

  Blogs, Goals, Life’s Challenges, Personal Retreats, Reflections

  accomplishments, baking cookies, blogging, chocolate chip cookies, Christian Book Market, devotional book, e-book, Guideposts, hospitality, independent publisher, learning curve, life challenges, listening for God, monday mornings, personal retreat, reflections, reflections on everyday life, self-publishing, spirituality, Thomas Nelson, whispering winds, writing a book, writing retreat

• Garden Guilt

  Friday I worked hard. I was inspired by all the yard work some special guests did for us a week ago. Thanks, Mike and Sherrie! They spent a long weekend tackling the outside jobs I never seem to get done. Keeping up a three-acre yard takes more than three hours of lawn mowing every week…

  Marian

  June 18, 2012

  Gardening, Life’s Challenges, Nature, Reflections

  accomplishments, cherry tomatoes, gardening, Gary Gopher, gazing ball, life challenges, nature, plants, reflections, tomato plants, vegetable garden, whispering winds

• To-Do Lists

  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. [Bertrand Russell] We all like to think our work is important – whether the work is what we do on our job or what we do at home. Many of us have so many important tasks to…

  Marian

  January 9, 2012

  Goals, Personal Retreats

  accomplishments, getting organized, goals, monday mornings, personal retreat, to-do lists, whispering winds

• A Year-End Conversation with My Dog, Abbey

  [Copied from my first blog. Originally posted on December 26, 2011.] So, Abbey, as you look back over 2011, have there been any significant changes in your life?      I guess the most significant change in my life is that I’ve changed my attitude toward sneaking out for a walk. I know it makes you…

  Marian

  December 30, 2011

  Goals, New Year

  accomplishments, change in my life, daily devotions, devotional book, life changes, New Year goals, sarah young

• A New Year – A New Blog

  One of my goals for 2011 was to start a blog on the Whispering Winds website. Last April, I started a blog the easiest way I knew how, by using the blog add-on in Network Solutions’ website builder, the “easy-to-use” tool I had originally used to build my website. The blog worked, but not very…

  Marian

  December 28, 2011

  Blogs, Goals, New Year

  accomplishments, blogging, goals, New Year goals