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 |   This stuffed Beanie Baby dog came tagged "tracker" which fits my search for knowledge. |
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Here are words I like to write All day long 'til it is night. Words go up and words go down When complete approve the sound. If you complete my little rhyme, Things will come your way in time.         
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| Wednesday May 29, 2024 Wednesday Whew! Where has this month gone? I looked at my agenda on my last entry on the 19th. (Sorry for neglecting you poor blog tracker's place). I have one item to complete: Finish entry for the Lodestar Contest. I am going to do that as soon as I have finished this entry. I will defer to Blog City's prompt. Kudos to Princess Megan Rose 22 Years  . Her prompts are always direct and to the point which are the ones I most often respond to. Prompt: How are you making the world a better place for those that come after you? Write about this in your Blog entry today. I have a true story "Great Way to Communicate"  that answers this question. It was a huge eye opener to show me that everything you say or do for a person has an impact on them. Being supportive and positive is the way I roll. I may have opinions on how something could have been done differently. I always gave correct feedback to my employees in a way that was a teaching moment, not an opportunity to put someone down or ridicule them for making a mistake. In everything, I think about what is the impact of what I am saying or action I am taking? I had another experience I have not written about before. I supervised a team of telephone service representatives whose job was strictly about merchandise my company sold in a catalog. It was over the Christmas holiday. The representatives handled a lot of complaints. To make their interactions easier, I empowered my people to grant credit to resolve issues to a customer's satisfaction. They did not need to get my approval, which gave the customer confidence that the adjustment was done immediately showing we believed in doing what was right. One of my reps was out ill several times. I had to put him on a plan to improve his performance. He looked at me and said, "Tracker, I am sorry I miss so much work. I have a disorder that means I need blood transfusions which leave me so fatigued I can't work." I recommended the way to protect his job (through the Family Medical Leave Act FMLA). On an extended sick leave, I called him more than once a week to wish him well. He told me he looked forward to my calls. I told him I cared about how he was doing and looked forward to him being well and back at his desk that was waiting for him. One morning I received a call from a woman who said she was the sister of my sick employee. "He died last night," she said. "How?" I asked. "I thought you knew," she answered. "Bill had AIDS. I wanted to let you know and thank you." "No, he did not tell me. What do you want to thank me for?" "A few days ago, during my visit to Bill in the hospital, he was hallucinating. He was talking and he mentioned your name. He said 'Don't worry. Tracker trusts me and lets me credit up to one hundred dollars. I have her permission. I don't have to ask her every time. I am happy." He had his hands positioned as if he were at a keyboard, moving them like he was typing.' I took his personal things from his desk and called his sister. Normally we would ask a relative to come to our office to get their belongings. I felt like I needed to deliver them. We agreed on a time. She gave me her address. When I got there, she invited me in and introduced me to Bill's parents. Immigrants from Mexico, they did not speak English. I said, "Lo siento" which means I am sorry. (Yay for taking beginning Spanish). They smiled. I had majored in speech in college. I had prepared a few things to tell his sister. I was not aware his parents would be there. I spoke and his sister translated. She had previously asked me on the phone what he did at our company. He had never told his family. He lived alone in an apartment. I knew he was pretty tight-lipped about his personal life. I thought it surprising that his family did not know what he did. I talked about his job and his responsibilities. I explained to them how helpful he was to me because he had worked with merchandise calls for years and I went to him with questions I had as I was new to the team. He had a few recognition certificates in his desk. He also had a file with the monthly feedback handwritten reports I gave him. I gave all of it to them. That brings me back to my story "Great Way to Communicate." I made a difference in his life, the life of another employee I described in my story. I treat people with dignity and respect. I treat them in the manner I would like to be treated. I am kind. I have been known to passionately share my displeasure of this or that with a trusted friend. Overall, though, I am pretty even tempered and strive to leave things better off than where I found them. |
| Sunday May 19, 2024 3:00 pm WDC time Light bulb moment time arrived early this morning. Having slept for six hours, a couple of hours longer than my average, I was ready to get to my Just Do It list early. There was no time to waste. Just Do It  Complete beta reading Steven Gepp's book giving him feedback. Finish entry for the Lodestar Contest: "The Lodestar Contest" Review for Sumojo "WW1. A Soldier’s Nightmare " Work on DWG stuff "disABILITY WRITERS GROUP" Work on Words, Wonderful Words "Words, Wonderful Words" Check in Habit Heroes "Habit Heroes " Read email 23 new and respond. Read reply, file, deleteI will stop here I am tuckered just typing all I need to do. It does not include schoolwork, daily household chores, or my daily messaging with one of my good friends and talking on the phone with my BFF. If you need anything, I shall be around. |
| Saturday May 18, 2024 1:15 am  Prompt: What does "Dance Like No One is Watching" mean to you? If you need inspiration, listen to Gabby Barrett I have never been a great dancer. Despite that fact, I love to dance. When I hear music, like Gabby Barrett, I am moved to move, sway, or a full-on dance. The saying means that when you are not in front of others, an audience, your natural abilities, desires, and performance is going to be more gratifying. The feeling of not being judged lends itself to more honest behavior. |
| Saturday May 18, 2024 1:15 am Prompt: What does "Dance Like No One is Watching" mean to you? If you need inspiration, listen to Gabby Barrett I have never been a great dancer. Despite that fact, I love to dance. When I hear music, like Gabby Barrett, I am moved to move, sway, or a full-on dance. The saying means that when you are not in front of others, an audience, your natural abilities, desires, and performance is going to be more gratifying. The feeling of not being judged lends itself to more honest behavior. |
| Thursday May 16, 2024 3:30 am Prompt: Would you rather be a famous writer, a Rock Star or a Doctor who finds a cure for cancer? Write about this in your Blog entry today I would love to be a rock star from which I would make oodles of money to support my novel writing hobby. My doctorate would be in molecular biology which would allow me to work on cancer research in my spare time, like backstage before a concert or when my muse goes on hiatus. |
| Saturday May 11, 2024 8:50 am Maya Angelou said, "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow." My mother was a turtle. She was introverted, the opposite of me, with little to say unless asked. When asked, she poked her head out of her shell and talked until your butt got sore sitting there listening to her. She never walked fast or rushed a thing in her life. Look at me. She waited until the very last day of the year to have me. I do know the turtle wins the race. She won my heart, respect, and forever love. She has been gone since 2002. I miss her more now near Mother's Day. Note: Her favorite color was lavender. |
| Friday May 10, 2024 5:45 pm Please use these words in your entry today: Mother, accurate, handy, relevance, reckless, swop, fork, and accountable. Mother and I met for our usual Saturday lunch date. We were seated at our favorite booth. She was given a seniors menu. It had been a drama-filled Friday the day before. I was eager to tell her all about it. She was a good listener and never rushed me. My friend, Sue, was arrested for reckless driving. She called to ask me to call her mother and explain what happened. She talked about camping with her boyfriend, Jon. To me, it had no relevance but I was not going to interrupt her train of thought. She called at dawn. My mother knew Sue well which is why she was not surprised. I dropped my fork. She asked if I was sure Sue said reckless. I assured her it was accurate. She had babbled on about Jon and camping, and not saying how or why she was driving like a maniac. The girl was never accountable for her actions. I checked to see if the waiter was handy to bring me a clean fork and refill our drinks. He was and picked up our glasses to refill them and swap out my dirty fork. My mother took a sip, looked up at me, and said how happy she was to have me for her daughter. That was Mother's Day 2002. She was gone on the seventh of July. I tell my daughter how happy I am to have her as my daughter and have heard her tell her daughters the same thing. It is a beautiful thing to say and hear. |
| Tuesday 7 May 2024 Tuesday It was brought to my attention, in a blog entry regarding all the (not so good) things that go on in America, that we write our dates wrong. Most of the world, he writes, uses the day, month, year format. I like it so hope to remember to use it in my blog. I was not crazy about the long list of things about Americans, but remembered to respect the freedom of someone to express their thoughts. I admit it. I do not have time to do everything. If I make a formal blog review, responding to a blogging group's post, I take great care writing it. I know at least one person from the group will read it. I want it to be presented and written well. That is time consuming. I have the reviewing down. I take the opportunity early in my day to review someone who I come in contact with. Someone who reviewed me, something drawing my attention in the Newsfeed, or a Newbie. That is when I have time to go into the Newsfeed. I let that go in favor of monitoring the progress of fulfilling the Auction packages and raffle ticket goodies. All is under control. I was not certain when or how I would contact the few people who owe for their bids. I put that off for a few more days. |
April 28, 2024 Sunday 4:45 pm MST Ideas here, Ideas there, Ideas are hiding Everywhere! An essay inspired from a segment of the "Sunday Morning" TV show I saw this morning, regarding doing nothing, is the topic for only my second essay in the past year. It comes at a time when Congress has a bill they are considering to lower the required minimum full-time work week from 40 to 32 hours. A new book called "Do Nothing" promotes spending periods of your day spend not doing anything. Any work, that is. Dining out, walking down the lane/beach/mountain trail are just a few of the things that one can argue is doing something but it is not working really. Important to me was the report that people over 65 don't like to do "nothing," many working past the generally accepted retirement age. Scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology} report the brain needs to spend some time each day letting go of the cognitive brain to let the subconscious have a turn. The author of "Do Nothing" gave the lion as an example of an animal who works very little (seeking and killing its dinner} while spending the bulk of its time sleeping/napping/doing nothing. Was it Colonel Klinger on the TV show "Hogan's Heroes" who said "Veddy In-ta-resting?" Corrected: "Veddy in-ta-resting" comes from Laugh-In, a German soldier character played by Arte Johnson while smoking a cigarette. Thanks s  REVIEWING |
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