I was walking in my neighborhood with one of my neighbors and she said, “I don’t want to be judgmental, but I’ve seen a couple of teenagers in trucks driving through the neighborhood and…” Another neighbor drove by when I was planting flowers and stopped to say, “Do you want me to call about (blah [...]
I received an angry comment from one of my videos at http://www.michellepayton.com/video-clips.htm titled “Are Today’s Kids Gifted? How to Educate our Children.” In a nutshell, this person was very bitter when it came to children and felt they are all misguided.
As a mother of three dependent children at the moment while simultaneously seeking enlightenment – [...]
9Dec09
The Death of a Salesman Eulogy: At Peace with the Learning that Came from an Abusive Childhood
What if you had to write a eulogy for someone that did you harm? Could you connect success in life because of your experiences? Who or what would you write about?
In my quest to find out more about the paternal side of my family (where my American Indian heritage originates), while striving not coming in [...]
31Aug09
What’s in a wave?
Even as a child I’d always been one for waving at people as I walked by. But as I got older and people didn’t wave back I changed my approach to giving smiling eye contact and a nod as I walked by. (Then, if I didn’t get a little nod back it wouldn’t be quite [...]
As I sat in my Asheville, North Carolina home watching a morning show sipping my tea, an author of a “stay young” type of concept said that living in the mountains extends your life. The left brain stats say that one of the reasons is certain cancers can’t develop as aggressively with less oxygen to [...]
“My Wife or my Mom is walking her path and is taking me/us kicking and screaming but she wants me/us.” Facing your truth even when UNagreeable.
