The only reason they come to see me is that I know life is great – and they know I know it.

I sit here at my keyboard, simply allowing Mr. Gable’s quote to percolate with me; and the percolating rhythms add to my feeling great.

Yes, here I’m in my 60s, feeling mighty good; in fact, I’m feeling GREAT because like Clark Gable, I know life is great.

I remember when I first saw Clark Gable on the big screen; he was  playing the role of Rhett Butler in the movie classic, Gone with the Wind.

And perhaps like many of Clark Gable’s fans, I too was picking up on his knowing-life-is-great attitude.

Reflecting back on my early years, my aging role models didn’t necessarily emanate the feelings of life is great.

My grandmother’s side of the family were my aging role models, providing me with pictures and stories as to what the later years of life might look like.

Uncle Mart & Aunt Emma; Aunt Murl and Uncle Gil; and Marie and Clyde . . .

Going to visit them was not one of my favorite things to do. They sat and talked; they talked and sat. They talked about what ailed them and what used to be.

Me as a little kid, I loved to run around. I loved to laugh. I loved action, filled with oodles and oodles of joy.

Aunt Murl, God bless her, was challenged by my joyful presence, and let me know on several occasions that my exuberant, spirited actions were most inappropriate.

Yeah, Aunt Murl let me know through her words and actions that being a good boy in her presence meant that I was to sit quietly.

One time around age 3 I attempted to offer Aunt Murl my point of view. Oh, my goodness . . . I can still see her finger shaking at me and the earrings, hanging from her big earlobes, bouncing in perfect rhythm with her shaking finger.

I learned to stifle my music in the presence of Aunt Murl.

Now all these years later, I recognize a life lesson Aunt Murl was teaching me. She chose to live in her sorrows and not to live in joy.

Yes, I admit I am a revolutionary kind of guy . . . revolutionizing the how to play in life’s Act 3 . . . simply letting out the music of the heart.

With aging gracefully – my heart’s music is pure joy; to me, life is great whatever my age may be. And just as I was at three years of age, I still feel my heart’s joy motivating me to move around, creating the music of joyful laughter!

Loving you,

Robert, aka Bob

If you want to convert centimeters to inches, there are some interesting alternatives. But to make sure you understand the arithmetic from the core, we’re about to give you some orientations about the basics.

Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to understand how the inches conversion is needed. Funny though, it’s easy to picturing the rough height of people in terms of feet-inches measurement. But when it comes to measuring people’s height in metric system, things can be much confusing.

Without any proper direction, it’s almost impossible for you know, merely by the numerals, whether a guy measured is big, short or average in height. That’s where conversion calculators come in. Fortunately, they’re extensively available in the Internet too. Unfortunately, there are situations when we don’t have any computer handy. In those instances, it’s wiser to make use of simple yet effective arithmetic equations for turning the mystifying centimeter measurement to the equivalent feet or inches.

Multiply your centimeter number by 0.3937. As for an instance, when you’re working with a height of 191 centimeters, you’ll have to multiply that by 0.3937. Thus you will get 75. Done?

Then you have to divide this result from by 12. Thus you’ll get the total feet in your measurement. In our example, it’s 6.26. However, as height is seldom measured or reported in decimals, you’ll have to convert the .26 feet to an equivalent of inches. Fortunately, that’s easy as well. Just multiply a foot (which contains 12 inches) by .26 percent. This will result in 3 inches.

So there you go! Now you can present the final height using feet as well as inches. If you use the same old example of the 191 centimeters we mentioned earlier, your final measurement of height would be roughly 6 feet and 3 inches.

If you want to convert centimeters to inches, there are other ways around to it too! In fact, there are some instances when we need to go backward and forward between inches/feet and centimeters. But if you have a clear understanding of how inches/feet and centimeters are compared among one another, you shouldn’t need to break much sweat multiplying and/or dividing to find your desired results.

Painting With Stencils

Stencils are great idea for fun painting, you can use it with paint brushes or just your fingers. You can use these materials in painting full landscape images.

Painting With Straws and Marbles

Be creative and use other materials in creating your master piece. Your kids can use straws in creating various effects. Just dip the straw into the paint and blow the paint to the canvas resulting to a unique image. You can also use marbles by dipping marbles into the paint and rolling the marbles into the canvas to add more variety of design.

Painting With Sponges

Painting using sea sponges would be fun for your kids. You can create different patterns with this. You can use different sizes of sponge to create a variety of patterns. You would be surprise at how addictive this activity can be.

If you want to develop your child skills and even your own skills in painting then you can always learn more painting techniques. You can find lots of free information in the internet. There are online art schools where you can get all types of information about painting.

Painting can be very expensive hobby but there are ways where you can develop this talent to the fullest. You don’t have to go enroll for formal classes where you spend lots of money. Now the internet has opened a new opportunity to grasp learning for free. So take the opportunity and develop your skills in painting.

A recent study has shown that because your child is unable to see your face during your walks, this might give him emotional distress, increasing his stress levels and possibly delaying developmental milestones in life. The study was conducted by the Department of Psychology of Dundee University, Scotland. Using neuroscience, they used almost three thousand parent and infant pairs to study the difference between mothers who used forward facing and rear facing strollers. Their studies found that 25% of mothers with rear facing strollers conversed more often with their babies than mothers with forward facing strollers. The researchers found that babies in forward facing strollers had higher heart rates than those in rear facing ones. This makes the babies in rear facing strollers twice more likely to fall asleep.

According to the head of the study, Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk of Dundee University School of Psychology, “…life in a buggy is emotionally impoverished and possibly stressful”, she adds, “Stressed babies grow into anxious adults.” Doctor Zeedyk says that babies need to see their parents constantly to encourage growth, development and communication.

The study is limited to the area of Britain. So far no studies have been conducted in different countries and cultures.

The forward facing stroller is the most common and easily accessible. If you’re willing to shell out some extra cash for the rear-facing stroller, then there’s no harm in being able to appreciate your baby on a more face to face way. If anything, the importance of the study is to encourage mothers to talk more often with their babies.

Typically although you may possess a natural talent for a specific thing, you may not recognise it yourself, or you might not understand how your talent could turn into a career prospect. It really is worth taking a bit of time considering this when you begin job hunting or initiate your own business. If you can appraise your personal passions, skills and capabilities and determine your needs, you will be surely on the road to locating the employment which will be by far the most satisfying for you personally.Making the jump from an employee to running your own business could be completely terrifying! There can be so many considerations that you may ask yourself if you are ever likely to make up your mind to leave your career to start up by yourself. This can be a further avenue where career management solutions can help you. An unbiased outsider could possibly see possible risks you have been ignoring or make you understand that you have been stressing unnecessarily about pointless specifics. As the proprietor of a business enterprise start-up you should absorb all of the guidance you can get from these professionals who know very well what they are speaking about.

Some career management consultants handle the task of practical life coaches. When you’re an individual seeking career advice, the consultant needs to do a lot more that just point you towards a highly-paid job. If you have arrived at a turning point in your career path or else you are uncertain what exactly you want to do, the career manager will have to get to know you before they may help you. This may consist of detailed analysis; not only of your expertise, but additionally what you really take pleasure in executing. Since of course, your employment lifetime may extend for 40 years and that’s many years to expend undertaking a thing you don’t like. It’s possible you’ll only require assistance with creating the ultimate custom C.V. for the perfect position and a career manager can help you with that also.

Senior and executive vacancies seldom get as far as the jobs pages of your regional paper. To stand any chance of obtaining any of the sought-after situations you are likely to have to network. That is included in the process of professional career management consultancy and any competent advisor will make it their business to ensure that you are aware of these options.

Silent Office
If the office is too quiet, meaning no healthy chit chat is going on and people aren’t comparing notes or bouncing ideas off one another, then it’s a sure sign that you need a teambuilding activity to get everyone back to the basics of working as a team. Sometimes people who work together get stuck on working on their own problems that they forget that they are part of a team in which there are others who can help them with work related problems. In this instance, a teambuilding activity would help a team that previously worked well together get back to that team mentality.

Everyone Goes to One Person
If everyone in a group is all going to one person to have that person help with their work related problems, then the team mentality has shifted to one person. Not only is it not fair to that one person to come to only them with issues that need to get fixed, but there are most likely others in the group who would be able to handle some of those problems as well, if not even better than the one person that is getting all of the issues. A teambuilding activity would help the group to realize each person’s strengths so that when an issue comes up, they know just who to take it to so the issue gets handled efficiently and quickly.

The Pros and Cons of a Fake Doctors Excuse

First, there is the pros of a fake doctors excuse. A fake doctors excuse may get you out of trouble when you miss too many days at school or work. It is an easy way to solve a problem and may even prevent you from getting expelled or fired. However, the cons of a fake doctors excuse may out weight the pros. If you use one and are caught you can suffer the consequences. Not only will you be punished by your school or employer, but it may stick with you on your record. In fact, using a fake doctors excuse can be a form of plagiarism, especially if you sign your doctors name. If you use a fake excuse you are taking a big risk. The person you give the excuse to can do a follow up and call your doctor. This can lead to more serious problems then lying about missing a day at work or school.

If you weigh the good and bad, using a fake doctors note is really not worth it. If you call out sick, make sure that you are sick. Do not lie about an illness, as it could come back to bite you. If you feel that it is absolutely necessary to take that risk, make sure that you are prepared for both the negative and positive outcomes. You may be able to get away with it and have all your absences excused or you may get caught and have to suffer the consequences.

One of my unique dresses I bought at Goodwill.  I thought it was a cute dress; I thought it was a unique dress.  It was obviously cheap and I got compliments when I wore it.  What made this dress a unique dress, was that it had a form-fitting wide, black waist band that I wore with a belt.  Yes, I received compliments, but being a teacher, I would often have a child ask me, “How did you hurt your back?”  I suppose it looked a little or maybe a lot like a back brace.  I even thought that maybe some adults thought I had back problems, so I got rid of  that unique dress.

When shopping at a major department store, I happened upon a Calvin Klein dress.  You might wonder what was so unique about it.  It was a really cute  sleeveless denim dress that fit like a glove.  The description doesn’t sound so unique, but what made this designer dress a unique dress was the price.  Its original price was well over a hundred dollars.  I landed this unique dress for only $5.  That’s right, it cost $5.  I head straight to the clearance racks when shopping at major department stores.  The price on this unique dresses had been seriously slashed.  This unique dress was one of a kind – GOOD.

I have a weakness for denim dresses.  My next unique dress story involves another denim dress.  This unique dress I bought many years ago.  It is sleeveless and denim with a contrasting denim flower.  Very very cute.  This unique dress can be worn with tennis shoes or dressier shoes.  I can wear this unique dress to work, run errands, or vacation.  It’s a heavy enough material that a slip and bra are not required.  I wear this unique dress all year long.  When it is cold outside, I might wear a shirt underneath or layer it with a jacket.  I’ve had this dress forever, but it doesn’t go out of style.  I often get compliments when I wear this unique dress.  Another good unique dress story.

When I was a stay-at-home mom, I looked for very comfortable  clothes at cheap prices.  At this time,  making dresses by sewing together men’s t-shirts became popular at my church.  A friend explained exactly how it was done, so I busied myself with this unique dress project.  When finished with my unique dress, I thought the best place to take my unique dress on her maiden run was to church.  My unique dress, designed for comfort, made me feel anything but.  This unique dress felt more like a nightgown.  Whether others thought that or not, no one said.  But nothing said can often be a telltale sign that a  unique dress is not so much unique, but unusual or worse, strange.  This very strange unique dress was never worn again.

Unique dresses, good and bad, stir up memories.  It’s interesting how an article of clothing can have so many thoughts and feeling attached to it.  The important thing is to look  at this unique dress stories and laugh.  What is your unique dress story?

It can be intimidating to go back to school. The average college student age is 20.6 years of age. The traditional college student age gap is between 18 and 22 years of age. Those statistics can be extremely intimidating for someone that is older than those ages. But, going back to school shouldn’t be scary.

Going back to school just got a lot easier. Thousands of colleges and universities have begun putting their curriculum online. What does this mean? This means that you can now go back to school without having to actually go to class. You can complete your college education entirely online. No more lugging huge textbooks all over campus. No more wasting money on commuting to and from class. No more waiting for the bus. No more waiting in long lines to register. No more sitting in class with 100+ strangers and being forced to choose 4-6 of them for your group. That’s right…you can start and finish your college experience online.

The number of college students is on the rise due to the weak economy. These students have caught the vision of preparing for the future. In order to protect your future, you need to have a college education. This education is easily obtainable now that many universities have put courses online. Online courses are fast, convenient and affordable. It’s now or never time to finish your education. Which will you choose?