by Elsie Manley-Casimir | Dec 3, 2019 | Big Ideas, Life lessons, Personal growth, Self-reflection
When I was in my mid-thirties and home with four small children, I took a course at church titled “Living, Dying, Grief,” led by Reverend Jim Taylor. I remember one homework assignment clearly, over forty years later. It was to write your own epitaph. As...
by Elsie Manley-Casimir | Aug 27, 2019 | Life lessons
In his book, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Peter Temin writes that “escaping poverty requires nearly 20 years with nearly nothing going wrong.” He continues, “And how is one to move up from the lower group to the higher one?...
by Elsie Manley-Casimir | Jun 19, 2018 | Life lessons, Self-care, Self-reflection
I felt down recently. I was depleted of positive energy, drained and feeling blue. Before I sunk into lethargy, I remembered my treasure box! Years earlier, when I went on cleaning splurges, I started saving little memorabilia in a box – things I didn’t want to...
by Elsie Manley-Casimir | Apr 10, 2018 | Big Ideas, Courage, Life lessons, reframing, Self-reflection
Someone gave me a button a long time ago with the following saying on it: “I no longer have to stand in the rain, pretending I’m not getting wet.” I think it was when I was going through the disintegrating of my marriage…or maybe I saw it and bought it for...
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