Remember When All We Had Was to Complain About the Weather


Gooooooood Morning Lead! Have you been outside lately? We’ve had some beautiful days. On a walk this week I even smelled that Black Hills summer smell. You could blind fold me and drop me anywhere in the world and I would always recognize the smell of home. I can never quite put my finger on … Continue reading Remember When All We Had Was to Complain About the Weather

I can’t Believe I got Fired from the Calendar Factory. All I did was Take a Day Off!


Good Morning! Have you ever been fired, laid off or furloughed? It’s a traumatic experience. But very often it frees us up in a way we weren’t before. Few of us can responsibly walk away from a job, particularly if we have a family and a mortgage and all the trimmings of adult life. Being … Continue reading I can’t Believe I got Fired from the Calendar Factory. All I did was Take a Day Off!

Distinguishing Amounts of Optimism


Good Morning Lead (& Friends)! If you’ve been reading my emails for any length of time you might think I’m unrealistically optimistic ALL the time. You’d be wrong. I’m actually quite cynical. But I choose to try and be optimistic despite this general outlook, constantly trying to pick the happy high road. This week I … Continue reading Distinguishing Amounts of Optimism

At Least You’re not Sleeping on a Rope


Good Morning! Like so many of you, we’ve been watching a LOT of Netflix and Prime in our empty evenings. We’re kind of on a history kick and stumbled across Victorian Slum House on Prime from PBS. The premise of the show is that several families agree to live like they did in the Victorian … Continue reading At Least You’re not Sleeping on a Rope

The Worst of Times, the Best of Times


Good Morning, Lead! What a breathtakingly beautiful morning it is!! I have some news so wanted to pester you for the third time this week. Hope you don’t mind! 🙂 First the bad news: The Kiwanis Fish Fry dinner scheduled for April 3rd has been canceled. Bummer. Terry Peak is closed effective immediately. Huge bummer. … Continue reading The Worst of Times, the Best of Times