A Poem for When I Think of All I’m Not

Loss and Gain
When I compare
What I have lost with what I have gained,
What I have missed with what attained,
Little room do I find for pride.
I am aware
How many days have been idly spent;
How like an arrow the good intent
Has fallen short or been turned aside.
But who shall dare
To measure loss and gain in this wise?
Defeat [...]

Why I Like My Job

If you work in retail or customer service, lets face it — Christmas isn’t always so merry. In fact sometimes it’s down right crappy. Earlier this week I had to do something that I knew would bring is a slew of angry email and phone calls. I had to notify customers of [...]

Why Do I Always Have to Be Velma?

Yesterday was not a good day. In the heat of the Christmas panic at work, our computer system went down. This included our phones. When you work in a call center – it’s kind of important to have phones work. When things finally got working and I was able to get [...]

My Christmas Newsletter

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you are having a joyous season filled with love and the holiday spirit.
It’s been a busy year and thought I’d catch you all up. I’ll start (and end) with letting you know what DeAnn has been up to this year.
DeAnn is pure sunshine. She has me laughing [...]

Living in Unison

I was searching under my bed for something today and came across my box of old journals. I’ve been keeping a daily journal since I was 14 so I have lots of journals. I picked up one from 1997 and thumbed through it and read a few pages. What surprised me [...]