Tag: choosing

Awfully Nice

  Awfully Nice or Why Nice People Won’t Be in Heaven This Year of Not Being Nice was meant to free and empower me, not expose me. To change how others treat me, not how I treat myself and… Read More

The Clash of the Women Conventions

    Or what happens when the Tennessee Titan Cheerleader Tryouts, the Junior League of Nashville, and the Tennessee Red Hat Society end up at the Grand Ole’ Opry Hotel at the same time? The Grand Ole Opry… Read More

How Would You Answer This Question?

Are you willing to make a decision which would cost someone else? Bill, my husband, and I are opposites on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® except for one: we’re both perceivers. We never stop seeking more options and hate… Read More

How Barney and Aunt Bee Helped Me Get Back on the “Brave Wagon”

  Confession: I recently suffered a niceness relapse. I fell off the buck-up-and-be-brave-wagon and scrambled back on the “niceness” hamster wheel which doesn’t take me anywhere but to self pity and exhaustion. Let’s say (hypothetically of course) that… Read More

The Hall of Fame of Not-Nice People

  In this Year of Not Being Nice, I’m compiling a list of role models in courage and conviction, men and women who take their place instead of being put into someone else’s place for them. These are people… Read More

In the Game of “No, You First . . . .”

Have you ever played that ping-pong game of “No, you first”                               “No, you take it”                … Read More