April 27th, 2010, My Loving Grandmother, “Minnie C. Roddy” Grandmothers take great pleasure in enjoying every moment with their grandchildren. I have never known a grandparent who could look their grandchildren in the eye and say “NO”. Grandchild: “Grandmother, could you take us hang gliding off Mount Kilimanjaro next week”? Grandmother: “Ok honey, let me [...]
Being a parent to your child or children is very important. My mother did the best she could at a young age being a parent to me and my two siblings alone but the important things did not take place in our household. I love my mother a lot and I appreciate the things that [...]
April 14 I’m giving the keynote speech at a Mother’s Day event on May 1st. I’m asked to tell my story about being a mature woman assisting Mom navigate her elder years. Around 75 women, multi generational, are expected to attend the event. Many will relate to the general topic. That of course is the [...]
April 13th, 2010 More Aunt Wisdom Twins Samella and Rosella moved to Chicago in 1959 and 1961. Trained as nurses, Chicago offered better employment opportunities. Aunt “Sam” is an angel, the definition of unconditional love. She offered lots of hugs during the times when I needed them the most. Most of them came after run [...]
I was never taught about credit cards before or after I left off to college and the average American doesn’t. I had to learn about credit cards the hard way. I thought making the minimum payments each month would be fine but that was the problem, I did not pay them on time. Before I [...]
April 6th School Years, Our Values, My Aunts Aunt Betty: Aunt Ida and I bumped heads daily. I’d ask myself, “Why is Aunt Ida so hard on me? Why should I have to do all this hard work when all my friends are at the play ground playing baseball and tag?” Aunt Betty was the [...]
3/30/2010, Elementary & Middle School Years, Value System Set, My Aunts Aunt Ida: I’m not sure if my grandfather assigned my Aunt Ida the task of making sure I completed my homework and did well in school. Ida was his youngest daughter. Ida was a “warrior” type personality. Direct yet loving. There was no misunderstanding [...]
Judging from the title of this post you might think that I’m correlating a relationship between having a good business with a prerequisite of having a good education. That’s partially true, but that’s not what we’re going to discuss today; today I want to expand on the idea of educating your customers and clients on [...]
I learned early in life that loaning money to family and friends could ruin valuable relationships. It is not the best idea to loan money to friends and family if you do not have it to lose. I personally feel that the best thing to do is to give the person in need the money [...]
3/23/2010, The Elementary & Middle School Years, Lessons from My Grandfather Ernest and I organized all our little league baseball and basketball games in the community. Ernest arranged for us to play teams from other communities and I would help recruit some of the local players. In our neighborhood, baseball was “King” so we always [...]
