Jenny Evans Dunham

Since I hope this blog is encouraging you to find ways to life your best life, I would be remiss not to recommend Mike Robbins to you. He is a motivational speaker who focuses on the importance of appreciation. This week his newsletter article is about telling the truth. You can read it here . He also has a corresponding audio you can listen to.

I encourage you to sign for his newsletter and to read his book Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation. With so many discouraging things in the news right now, we can all use a lift.

Transition. It seems to be the buzz word of the day. Right now, we’re hearing it used in the context of politics as we transition from one president to the next. However, each of has periods of transition all throughout our lives. How we handle these times often determines our future success in a particular area. Continue reading »

Well, it’s election day here in the United States. Each generation in my family is participating in some way. Both of my parents are voting. My husband and I went to the polls early this morning to cast our votes for the candidates we support. My younger daughter will be voting in a presidential election for the very first time. Even my grandchildren are eagerly planning to accompany their parents to the polls later on today. Although they are still very young, their homeschool group had a mock election last week where they voted for the fruit of their choice. Continue reading »

I had a computer crisis this past week and it messed up my schedule for getting all sort of things done, including posting on my blog. It was frustrating because my computer was the victim of a very nasty virus. The virus took over all sorts of things so it was hard to figure out exactly what was wrong. As I write this post, my son-in-law is still trying to see if he can save my computer from an early demise. Continue reading »

As I get older, I am beginning to question some of my long-held beliefs and feelings about different things in life and society. For example, in the past I felt a particular way about certain issues and would never have even thought to consider feeling differently. However, with age comes a new type of wisdom–the realization that everything you think you know and believe was taught to you by someone else. In most cases, you were never told why such and such was perceived to be a certain way; you just accepted that it was. It doesn’t mean that what we were taught is necessarily wrong, but I have found that I want to believe something because I personally believe it to be so. Continue reading »

With the political season in full swing, telling the truth or not telling the truth (as the case may be) is a major issue. As a voter and concerned citizen, it is often hard to tell who is telling the truth and who isn’t and whether something is 100% true or has been stretched to meet the situation. It’s very disillusioning to me personally. Continue reading »

One of my favorite TV advertisements is one that promotes the Royal Bank of Scotland. It shows a group of people out at a business lunch. One of them starts choking on some food. The other people at the table talk about how to do the Heimlich maneuver to help him stop choking. They’re talking; the guy is choking. Finally, you see a person from another table walk over and perform the Heimlich maneuver on the person. The choking guy is saved! The motto for the Royal Bank of Scotland is “Make It Happen.” Continue reading »

My four-year-old grandson had an interesting experience a few weeks ago. I gave his mom a box of MultiGrain Cheerios for them to enjoy. The next morning she noticed that my grandson was looking for food in the refrigerator. This was rather odd because his bowl of cereal was sitting on the table waiting for him. When she asked him why he wasn’t eating his Cheerios, he told her that some of them were burned and he didn’t want to eat them. Since this was his first time to eat MultiGrain Cheerios he didn’t understand why some of them were darker than others. Once his mom explained to him that they just looked different because they were made from a different grain he ate them without any problems. Continue reading »

This week I read the novel, The Choice, by Nicholas Sparks. Although it is a love story, it is so much more. Without giving away the plot or the ending, let me just say that the hero of the story has to make a very serious decision involving whether to keep a promise he made or to break it because of his love for the heroine. I found it extremely hard to put down the book once I started reading it because I wanted to know what he decided to do. Continue reading »

It wasn’t that long ago that my youngest grandson learned to walk. I remember how he would walk a little, fall down, cry a little, get back up, walk some more–over and over again. He got frustrated but he wasn’t willing to totally give up and stop trying to learn to walk. Today he is in constant motion and runs more than he walks. He succeeded in reaching his goal and then some. Continue reading »