"What is a good laptop computer for traveling?" A friend recently asked.

"I hear Sony Vaio notebooks are pretty good." I responded.

"How much do they cost?"

"You can find out prices on the Buy dot com website."

"Great!I like the idea of staying connect to the Internet while I travel."

I sort of have this love/hate thingee going on with SALES and sales training.

Sales... the very lifeblood of a business, and absolutely essential in most cases to the success or failure of a commercial enterprise.

But the bottom line is that this entrepreneur is not a SALES PERSON. The very thought of selling somebody something sends me running for the hills.

Lord help me!

"Grandmother, put on a little lip gloss. You never know who you will meet." I said as my recently widowed grandmother, Lillian and I were about to venture out of the air-conditioned Miami Beach condo and into the Florida sun.

Echoing my words back to me, my grandmother followed my advice.

The exchange was one of those profound ones between a grandmother and her young granddaughter. Oh, I'm sure I didn't feel so young at the time. Afterall I was the ripe old age of about 15, that age when lip gloss seems so important.

"Kathi, your life plays out like a movie..."

If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard this through the years I'd be sitting pretty :)

Of course, I'm not too sure what sort of movie it would be. But one thing I do know, it would be a movie illuminated with the grace of GOD!

My life has often not been easy or picture perfect. I've made choices that were not altogether good ones. But despite all this, God has never left me or abandoned me. He's picked me up, brushed me off and embraced me despite all my brokeness and filled me with the desire to keep trying and little-by-little I get a little closer to becoming the person HE created me to be.

Perhaps everyone's life is a bit like a movie- co-written by a heavenly script that gently allows us the opportunity to make a few mistakes here and there. Sometimes it is the mistakes that makes the story so compelling.

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In my heart of hearts,I've always believed that a true love would love you regardless of whether you were svelte or not, and that the inner person that dwells within was far more important than the more superficial outer being.

Within varying degrees, we can all look pretty good. Take a gift box, wrap it up in beautiful papers and bows and with just the right craftsmanship, the box can look pretty enticing.

But isn't the substance within that box (or that person) what is really important? Should it matter whether we are svelte or not?

For me, I prefer to be chosen for the qualities that make me, ME ... and certainly not because I look good, or because I wear a certain size or because I feed some man's ego.

On the other hand, I do want to look good, feel good and dare I say, (LOVE GOOD,
TOO!) So therefore inlight of this, I welcome the opportunity to review the merits of the diet pill.

How do sinks sound?

Splash, splash splash!

Reminds me of a birthday card I happened upon in January, while shopping for the perfect birthday card for a special friend.

If you are anything like I am- not any card will do, you have to find the PERFECT card for the occasion.

The card I found was of a cruise ship and the question posed was... How does a Carribean Cruise sound?

The answer... Splash, Splash, Splash! Follow my blogs and who knows maybe you'll discover the rest of the story.

Sitting on the shelf of an old display case in an antique shop I spotted a sparkling beauty.

Was it a diamond or simply a cubic zirconia? Even though I longed to take a closer look, for reasons all my own, I chose not.

Perhaps I'll revisit this shop on another day. Will the ring still be there?

Will it be as dazzling up close as it was in passing?

Ah, the white flash and divine symbolism of engagement rings and the hope that they offer ... the helping hand, the loving heart, the poignant embrace that births a brand new purpose between two souls united. yet somehow shrouded in a divine mystery filled with the magnificance of great hopes and dreams, eager to be manifested.

A popular Irish saying goes something like, "If beef's the King of Meat, then potatoes are the Queen of the Garden World."

On this cold and blustery day, March 1 2009, my thoughts turn to rich, deep and satisfying fares...

Beef roasts slow roasted by fire with potatoes, carrots, perhaps a turnip or two. Splash in a pint of your favorite brew for an easy braise and don't be surprised later when you hear the sweet sound of gratitude and praise. cattle supplies