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01/03/12

Changing Jobs Means A Change in Decades of Routine Career

This is the first time in decades that I haven’t started my professional year with a trip to the Beltwide Cotton Conferences, yes I am so old as to have decades old routines. Go ahead mock me. I can take it. For as long as I can remember, I was heading to the cotton industry’s biggest event. It is the… Read More

12/31/11

Making a Meaningful Personal New Year’s Resolution

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions very often but this year, I thought it would be good for me to share what I’m resolving to do because I know some of you will hold me accountable!. New Year’s resolutions have sort of become the butt of jokes and it leads lots of psychologists to really look at resolutions. So I’m… Read More

12/30/11

Have you met a starchitarian? Or do you wonder what that even is?

This fall, while I was at an ag industry meeting in San Antonio, a group of friends invited me to go to a steak house with them. As soon as they mentioned the idea, my body told me it wanted some red meat so I was definitely in! With that mindset, I was all a go for steak when we… Read More

12/27/11

Farmers Helped Me With My Christmas Shopping :)

Well, the headline may mislead you but I’m okay with that. 🙂 The Christmas shopping help didn’t come in the form of carrying bags, picking out items, etc but as I started wrapping the gifts that were going to go under trees, I realized several of them started with a seed planted on a farm. I don’t think about it… Read More

12/26/11

Personalized Christmas Gifts Are Extra Special

This year I was very blessed during the holidays as I have been in the past. We had a great gathering of family and friends, making room for anyone who wanted to show up at the house to sleep or table to eat. I also loved the very real reminder that the holidays do not have to be the consumer… Read More

12/22/11

Ever Consider Growing Your Own Christmas Dinner? See @JimmysFarm Do It!

Just over a week ago, my sister and I made the trip to London from Liverpool. We had reservations at a hotel right at Heathrow and since I had an early flight home, we decided to get a bite of dinner at the hotel restaurant and call it a night. Once we got to our room, there were a few… Read More

Changing Jobs Means A Change in Decades of Routine Career

Making a Meaningful Personal New Year’s Resolution

Have you met a starchitarian? Or do you wonder what that even is?

Farmers Helped Me With My Christmas Shopping :)

Personalized Christmas Gifts Are Extra Special

Ever Consider Growing Your Own Christmas Dinner? See @JimmysFarm Do It!

Tell Me…. Would you knock on the door?

Thinking about Memphis Schools, the Memphis 13 for Black History Month

Observing Martin Luther King Day Way Before It was a National Holiday