Posts Tagged ‘Friendships’
Haitian Churches Keep the Faith
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Student Remains at College Thanks to Friends’ Generosity
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Demorris Davis, a student at Western Carolina University, can thank the generosity of fellow students—as well as the social networking power of Facebook—for being able to continue his education uninterrupted.
The problems began due to a mix-up with Davis’ financial aid, which meant he was in danger of having to return home because his family didn’t have the money to pay tuition.
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
Road Pals
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
The old brown Pontiac wasn’t mine but I climbed into the driver’s seat anyway.
“Hi, Miss Caroline!” cried the three passengers, my friend Annie and her two children.
No, I’m not Annie’s chauffeur. I’m just a friend. And that old brown Pontiac is a kind of salvation for me and
Annie both.
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
Call Me Coach
Thursday, December 11th, 2008By the time I hit my late 40s, life felt like it had reached a plateau.
I’d married in my teens, and now my kids were grown and I was divorced, living alone in a small, quiet condo. I was still teaching history at Curtis High School on Staten Island, just a few miles from where I’d grown up.
I’d been a teacher for 17 years. I loved teaching, considered it my calling to impact my students’ lives. Lately, though, it hadn’t felt that way. Curtis had changed a lot. Staten Island had changed.
It’s Still a Wonderful Life
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008!–paging_filter–pWe see it on television every Christmas:nbsp;a movie that continues to be a favorite from generation to generation. /p
pAnd as emIt’s A Wonderful Life /emnears its climax, there’s a scene that always gives me a shiver. Because I know the story behind it./p
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Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
This Is a Precious Thing
Monday, November 10th, 2008Grandma Butter was our next-door neighbor. The immigrant widow of a Polish baker, she had come to California because of the warm climate, because her ailing brother lived there, and probably, to be frank, because there was nowhere else for her to go. She lived in a Quonset hut next door to our Quonset hut, near the hospital where my doctor husband was doing his residency. But these were temporary lodgings for us, and I didn't see any need to become Grandma Butter's great friend.
A Perfect Match
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008I put up my new 1994 calendar in the kitchen, feeling like I'd finally gotten my life back on track. The past year since my divorce had been a long, hard struggle, but my three boys and I had adjusted to our single-mom household.
My job at a furniture factory kept food on the table and paid the bills. And I'd started going to church again with my mom. I couldn't quite believe as she did that God had a deep, personal interest in our lives—I figured he had more important things to worry about than me—but I definitely found comfort in being closer to him.
Hello, My Name Is…
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Everyone who sees Scott Ginsberg knows who he is right away. And it’s not because he’s famous for anything. It’s because he wears a nametag. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
On his way out of an event in college, Scott noticed a trashcan full of discarded name-tags. "I thought, What would happen if I left mine on all day?" He got his answer quickly. The simple act of putting his name out in the open "inspired these great conversations, and I started meeting all these new people," he says.
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
You Changed My Life, Rod
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Maybe it was because I was an only child raised by a single working mom.
Every day after school, I came home to an empty apartment. Or because I didn’t fit in with the other kids where I grew up in Los Angeles. I was chubby, terrible at sports, unappealing to girls. A bout with cancer that made me the only fourth-grader with no hair didn’t help.
Maybe it was because I was a late bloomer career-wise. I spent a few years playing in rock bands before I went to college at the University of Michigan in my twenties and discovered my true passion was writing.
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
