Category: attitude

When unpleasantly surprised, stay calm

November 13, 2007 | 6 comments

The City of Richland has been landscaping in front of my office. They removed several trees and plan to plant some new ones in different spots on the breezeway I look out onto. After they removed the old trees, they

Keep score of the best times

November 13, 2007 | 6 comments

Last weekend, I went with my family to Federal Way to watch my daughter swim in the Washington State swimming championships. She qualified in four events, which was quite an accomplishment—the 50 and 100 meter single freestyle, plus the 200

Never give into discouragement

November 2, 2007 | 7 comments

My 14 year old son has been working on a major project to complete for his science class. It has been weeks in the works and due for final presentation this afternoon. Fascinated with dry ice bombs a few months

Don’t let anger take root

October 30, 2007 | 6 comments

Have you ever gotten angry without any particular reason to be angry? For example, has your boss ever asked you to do something and you got upset with his request? Or maybe your spouse took a certain action that got

Spiders and their webs

October 23, 2007 | 5 comments

Two weeks ago, I came into my office one morning and a large spider web had appeared over night between the legs of a table I have sitting in front of my window. I wiped the web away and proceeded