Occupy Wallstreet – Divided and Fallen
A sweet MOAT sent me the link to this Daily Show report. It's just so darn funny, I can't stop from sharing. So as a follow up to Monday's From Shame to Serve Me, here's news from the front lines (ignoring the bleeped words and often biased view from the source......
Working Ourselves Out of a Job
Sometimes we might wonder why we so desperately need to equip our kids to do even the basic of duties around the house. I mean really, it's pretty much always easier to do it ourselves (especially in the teen years where loads of moans and indignant responses hit our...
From Shame to Serve Me
Not too long ago, a generation considered “handout”s a scarlet letter. A friend recently told me that during the Great Depression, her grandfather who had lost everything, would rather starve than accept a hand out. Accepting help from the government was considered...
Table Talk – Perfection by Diane Paddison
Today’s Table Talk is by Diane Paddison. She has just published a terrific book called Work, Love, Pray to encourage women. She offers encouragement to us today through her wise words on perfection, an issue women deal with on a daily basis. Perfection is one...
Humility
A couple weeks ago, Jon & I, along with 200 of our closest friends, enjoyed an evening with David Brooks. When I met him before he spoke and told him about our MOAT effort to transfer responsibilities to our kids’ plates in an effort to move away from entitlement...
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