We received a really nice note from a listener and I wanted to share it.
It is from Brittany Elaine Weichmann.
"I listen to you two every morning =) On my drive to Bay Village from Cuyahoga Falls. This evening on my drive home, you were talking about Mother Theresa quotes and here is one of my favorites from her on "Life"
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
-- Mother Theresa...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Truths Most of Us Can Relate To
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5 How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection.. .again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this - ever.
15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Bud Lite than Kay.
20. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
22. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
25. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year?
29. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
31. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my behind everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!
~Didn't write 'em but had to share 'em
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5 How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection.. .again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this - ever.
15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darn it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
18. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
19. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Bud Lite than Kay.
20. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
21. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
22. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
23. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
24. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
25. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
26. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
27. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
28. Is it just me or do high school kids get dumber & dumber every year?
29. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
30. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
31. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
32. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet my behind everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!
~Didn't write 'em but had to share 'em
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
Happy Ending: A Thief Does The Right Thing
Last Friday night, Dawn Marie Wilson (no relation to me) was enjoying herself at the Miranda Lambert concert at the Akron Civic Theater. Her leather Dale Earnhardt Jr jacket was draped over the back of her seat for most of the show. After the encore, she reached back to put it on, and it was gone. She was devastated.
The jacket, she told me in an email sent the following morning, was not really worth that much monetarily, but to her it had great sentimental value. Her dad had given it to her as a gift, and it represented memories of their combined love of racing.
That following Monday, I read the email on the air during the Wynn and Wilson in the Morning show on WQMX. The story was also posted on the morning show's Facebook page. Calls flooded the studio lines and tons of comments were posted on Facebook, with everyone hoping for a happy ending, similar to the ending that came with a story about a guitar theft weeks before.
Lat month, Country singer Justin Moore (famous for his hit "Small Town USA") had his guitar stolen from the stage after a performance in Michigan. He put a plea out via social networking asking for his guitar back. He explained it had sentimental value and encouraged the fan to do the right thing. Justin's guitar was returned, with a note of apology. The fan said he was drunk and over-excited and just jumped on stage and grabbed the guitar, and acted foolishly.
Alcohol sometimes makes people do dumb things, we all know that, and so when we put out the plea for the jackets return both on the air and on Facebook, we compared the two incidents and said this one was also probably alcohol-induced. We asked for the bandit to do the right thing. As Scott said; "you'll never feel good about wearing it."
This morning, Scott opened a box that arrived in the mail. In it, was the jacket with a simple note that said "Please accept my sincere apology." We announced the jacket's return on the air and on Facebook, and again, the response from listeners was overwhelming and positive, with the overall theme of renewed faith that people, if given the chance, will "do the right thing."
So. whoever you are, thanks for doing the right thing.
The jacket, she told me in an email sent the following morning, was not really worth that much monetarily, but to her it had great sentimental value. Her dad had given it to her as a gift, and it represented memories of their combined love of racing.
That following Monday, I read the email on the air during the Wynn and Wilson in the Morning show on WQMX. The story was also posted on the morning show's Facebook page. Calls flooded the studio lines and tons of comments were posted on Facebook, with everyone hoping for a happy ending, similar to the ending that came with a story about a guitar theft weeks before.
Lat month, Country singer Justin Moore (famous for his hit "Small Town USA") had his guitar stolen from the stage after a performance in Michigan. He put a plea out via social networking asking for his guitar back. He explained it had sentimental value and encouraged the fan to do the right thing. Justin's guitar was returned, with a note of apology. The fan said he was drunk and over-excited and just jumped on stage and grabbed the guitar, and acted foolishly.
Alcohol sometimes makes people do dumb things, we all know that, and so when we put out the plea for the jackets return both on the air and on Facebook, we compared the two incidents and said this one was also probably alcohol-induced. We asked for the bandit to do the right thing. As Scott said; "you'll never feel good about wearing it."
This morning, Scott opened a box that arrived in the mail. In it, was the jacket with a simple note that said "Please accept my sincere apology." We announced the jacket's return on the air and on Facebook, and again, the response from listeners was overwhelming and positive, with the overall theme of renewed faith that people, if given the chance, will "do the right thing."
So. whoever you are, thanks for doing the right thing.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
An Ever-Changing Role
There's no handbook.
Parenting is a learn-as-you-go process, with much of what you start out doing (for the good or the bad) is what your parents did. Or, much of what you swear you won't do as a parent is from those same experiences.
Parenthood changes you. From the minute that baby is placed into your arms, nothing is ever the same again. You are completely and totally responsible for another human life. Exciting. Horrifying. Enlightening. Sobering.
A baby changes everything.
And so you go. From day to day, through the stages of infancy, through babyhood, into the toddler years. Then its preschool, elementary school, through adolescence and the turbulent teens, and finally into adulthood. And then... you start to try to let go, at least a little, as you send them away to college. And who would guess that letting go could be so hard?
I remember thinking when my girls were babies that it sure would be easier when they were a little older, walking and talking. Then they began walking... and I began running.
Then I recall thinking it will be easier when they get into school, that their days would be more structured and they would learn and grow and make friends and, well...then came homework and tests and frustrations and bad influences and hurt feelings. And I struggled between letting them fall and picking them up.
Life got more complicated as I became the single parent of two teen aged girls, and became a chauffeur, a counselor, a cheerleader, a coach, a friend, and an enemy and I recall thinking "things will get easier", maybe when they get their license, maybe when they go to college.
Yeah, right.
Now, both of my girls are young adults, and my role as a parent has turned into more of an observer, especially for my oldest who is now married and about to become a mother.
I watch them struggle with decisions and start to open my mouth and then have to bite my tongue! Or sometimes I don't...and realize that I can't just jump in like this anymore. I have to wait until I am asked for an opinion, and not give unsolicited advice. (And I fail at this a great deal) I want to share my knowledge and experience. I want to say "do this" or "don't do that".
But I have to keep repeating to myself that I am who I am because of my experiences. I am a combination of my successes and failures. And I learned more from my mistakes than my successes--and in fact, we all learn more from our failures and it is those lessons that lead us to our successes.
And yet, even though I may know these things...I still want to mentor, teach, encourage, protect and even defend everything about my baby girls, who are not babies anymore. And in fact, I am learning that now, not only am I more of an observer, the roles between mother and daughter are reversing.
I am learning things from them now. They are teaching me. Both have had more experiences, lived and traveled and done more things at their age than I had by the same age. Both are opening my mind to new ways of thinking politically and socially. I am continuing to be exposed to new concepts and ideas as I continue to learn acceptance, tolerance and new ways of doing things.
I've heard the saying that a good teacher knows success when their student goes further than they have. Because the cool thing about teaching (and parenting) is; you can give all your love and knowledge away and yet you still have it! But you can watch it grow bigger and stronger in the ones you have given it to!
My oldest daughter, now with child will be a great mom. As will my younger daughter when it is her time. Both of them will be better than I was, because they will take the best of me and the best of them and their dad.
And me?
I will do my best to adjust to this ever-changing role from parent to grandparent' and to accept and forgive myself for the mistakes I've made and continue to relish wherever this road leads.
Parenting is a learn-as-you-go process, with much of what you start out doing (for the good or the bad) is what your parents did. Or, much of what you swear you won't do as a parent is from those same experiences.
Parenthood changes you. From the minute that baby is placed into your arms, nothing is ever the same again. You are completely and totally responsible for another human life. Exciting. Horrifying. Enlightening. Sobering.
A baby changes everything.
And so you go. From day to day, through the stages of infancy, through babyhood, into the toddler years. Then its preschool, elementary school, through adolescence and the turbulent teens, and finally into adulthood. And then... you start to try to let go, at least a little, as you send them away to college. And who would guess that letting go could be so hard?
I remember thinking when my girls were babies that it sure would be easier when they were a little older, walking and talking. Then they began walking... and I began running.
Then I recall thinking it will be easier when they get into school, that their days would be more structured and they would learn and grow and make friends and, well...then came homework and tests and frustrations and bad influences and hurt feelings. And I struggled between letting them fall and picking them up.
Life got more complicated as I became the single parent of two teen aged girls, and became a chauffeur, a counselor, a cheerleader, a coach, a friend, and an enemy and I recall thinking "things will get easier", maybe when they get their license, maybe when they go to college.
Yeah, right.
Now, both of my girls are young adults, and my role as a parent has turned into more of an observer, especially for my oldest who is now married and about to become a mother.
I watch them struggle with decisions and start to open my mouth and then have to bite my tongue! Or sometimes I don't...and realize that I can't just jump in like this anymore. I have to wait until I am asked for an opinion, and not give unsolicited advice. (And I fail at this a great deal) I want to share my knowledge and experience. I want to say "do this" or "don't do that".
But I have to keep repeating to myself that I am who I am because of my experiences. I am a combination of my successes and failures. And I learned more from my mistakes than my successes--and in fact, we all learn more from our failures and it is those lessons that lead us to our successes.
And yet, even though I may know these things...I still want to mentor, teach, encourage, protect and even defend everything about my baby girls, who are not babies anymore. And in fact, I am learning that now, not only am I more of an observer, the roles between mother and daughter are reversing.
I am learning things from them now. They are teaching me. Both have had more experiences, lived and traveled and done more things at their age than I had by the same age. Both are opening my mind to new ways of thinking politically and socially. I am continuing to be exposed to new concepts and ideas as I continue to learn acceptance, tolerance and new ways of doing things.
I've heard the saying that a good teacher knows success when their student goes further than they have. Because the cool thing about teaching (and parenting) is; you can give all your love and knowledge away and yet you still have it! But you can watch it grow bigger and stronger in the ones you have given it to!
My oldest daughter, now with child will be a great mom. As will my younger daughter when it is her time. Both of them will be better than I was, because they will take the best of me and the best of them and their dad.
And me?
I will do my best to adjust to this ever-changing role from parent to grandparent' and to accept and forgive myself for the mistakes I've made and continue to relish wherever this road leads.
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