by billyzh | Apr 1, 2011 | Career/Job, Family, Spirituality, Women/Relationships
Ever find yourself fighting that very human, underlying, overwhelming need to compete? Or worse yet, the urge in a conversation to tear another down? Or this, what is it with the need to put someone we don’t like “in their place”? What place? I...
by billyzh | Mar 13, 2011 | Family, Holidays
Are you Green or Orange this St. Patty’s Day? When we see or think of St. Patrick’s Day, we think green. We wear green. We eat green things. Perhaps that’s due, in large part, to the fact that Green was the color of the Flag for Irish Catholics. But did you know that...
by billyzh | Feb 25, 2011 | Career/Job, Family, Politics, Women/Relationships
I don’t know why I was so surprised at the frustration over not seeing eye to eye with a particular individual. It is a very simple premise. That is why wars are fought. You see things one way, I, with my different background and beliefs see things another way. You...
by billyzh | Aug 6, 2010 | Career/Job, Family, History
Ok, so most of us have heard about or are perhaps familiar with Washington’s 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595, the young George copied them by hand at the age of...
by billyzh | Aug 3, 2010 | Family, Spirituality, Women/Relationships
As I poured my cup of coffee from the large urn that sat on the white cloth covered table outside the sanctuary doors, I suddenly realized there was a line for the cream and sugar. A line? How hard can it be to add cream and sugar I thought? Apparently, harder than...
by billyzh | Jun 8, 2010 | Career/Job, Dating, Family, Women/Relationships
Have you ever watched someone throw a tantrum? Maybe you have a tendency to burst out yourself. Most of us at one point or another have had the um…pleasure? Maybe you have recently been on the receiving end of someone’s temper. Those moments, along with...
