FAILURE THE GIFT IN SHITTING WRAPPING PAPER a follow up post to Why Failing is Fabulous . I said last month that I’d talk about the gifts that failure has given me – here we go. “Toni, this is a gift in shitty wrapping paper.” When all the hard, shocking stuff happened at…
Failing is Fabulous Fired and then fired again (and again) I’m a repeat fail-er. I fail often and with great variety. I was asked to leave one school and then formally expelled from another. I couldn’t even make it in one of those ‘school without walls’ style alternatives. I’ve been fired at least 5…
Gratitude the Wonder Drug 5 Reasons I think Gratitude is the Wonder Drug Some Background There was a time in my life when I was drowning in a sea of anger, bitterness and depression. I thought I had lost everything. Even prior to this season of slowly sinking I was ever…
Why Smile? Smiling has an immediate affect on your brain chemistry – smiles are very powerful both for you and the one you smile at. Here are just a few of the reasons smiling is SO good for you. 1. Smiles makes you feel better Even when you don’t feel naturally like smiling the very…
A Generous Angel A week ago a friend came over. Sixty five, recently divorced, she’s caring for her elderly mother and out of work. I know she has very little in the way of savings yet she gave me an incredible gift, $1,000 toward the book I’m self-publishing shortly! Her thoughts were,…
A Killer Funeral There was much confusion over the cause of death. One person could have done with more imagination as they went for the rather ordinary ‘being hit by a bus’ scenario. One daughter thought it was failure to release the parachute during a tandem nude sky dive. Another daughter declared it was the tragic…
