Author Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter

Scholarships and Grants for Women

P.E.O. Provides Scholarships and Grants for Women I’ve been the fortunate recipient of the Program for Continuing Education (P.C.E.) grant and it changed the course of my life. There are many more stories of others like these women who received the P.C.E.   Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She […]

Do You Let Others Think for Themselves?

Think For Yourself Taken from Courage to Change published by Al-Anon Family Group Maybe we need many points of view in order to understand life more fully after all, no one person’s view is totally complete. So when my partner, my child, my employer, or friend takes a position unlike my own, I have a […]

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How to Handle Difficult People

Dealing with Nasty or Difficult People This may seem like a strange topic to post on Christmas Eve, however, so many of the women I Coach deal with this issue and Christmas just makes it worse. Click the title above to read my article on Single Matters Magazine today, December 24, 2015. Gail raised three […]

First Christmas Without my Kids

My Classic Christmas Story Published on Single Matters Magazine Today Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great deal about child development and how […]

How I Learned to See from Blind Children

“Learning with Wisdom Gathered from Others” Chapter 12 Living Learning Loving Gail Cawley Showalter’s new book Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great deal […]

Loving the Power of Prayer

Prayer “Loving the Power of Prayer” in Living Learning Loving new book by Gail Cawley Showalter Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great […]

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Speaker of the House

Speaker of the House True Story I came home from high school one day very enthusiastic after taking my first civics class. At the dinner table I proceeded to announce that I had decided what I wanted to be. “Oh,” said my dad. “And what might that be?” To which I replied with a confident […]

Fun Adds Spice to Life

LLL Chapter 9 Fun Gives Flavor to Life Living Learning Loving By Gail Cawley Showalter #GShowalter_livinglearningloving Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great […]

Is Morality a Thing of the Past?

Morality Matters “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”  – Unknown #GShowalter_livinglearningloving Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special […]

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Pope Says Holy Spirit Works in the Chaos – CNN

Divine Chaos Can Be a Good Thing “To say it clearly, the Holy Spirit annoys us. Because he moves us”, he explained, “he makes us journey, he pushes the Church to go forward,” – Pope Francis, 2013 in Vatican Insider As many of you have heard me say there is always a message in the […]