Author Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter
Spring Brings New Beginning
Spring is God’s way of saying, “One more time.” – Robert Orben
5 Habits for Single Moms
Habits Make the Woman Gail Cawley Showalter If you want to make your life and household go smoothly I suggest looking at your habits. I’m telling you what I wish someone had told me oh so many years ago. My bad habits are catching up with me. Changing them at this point is no […]
Do Manners Matter?
Manners Do Matter Gail Cawley Showalter I’m a fan of Leonard Pitts. While I am not as liberal as he is, I think he is often dead-on in his editorials. In his editorial published January 23, he points out, rightfully, that “too many of us have forgotten a basic rule of what used to be […]
7 Rules of Life
Rules for Life You’ve probably heard these seven rules before. Last Sunday at the SMORE Sunday Support Group, Mary Simon shared them and we all shared our thoughts about each one. Tell us what you think. Which one speaks the most to you?
Remain Steady in Your Faith, Sunday Verse from SMORE
If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.For let not that man […]
Manners Are Not Old Fashioned-Manners Matter Even Today
Manners Matter is one of the SMORE Related posts: Teaching Manners, Top 10 Manners, Teaching Kids Manners in Mannerless World Unfortunately so few families eat at the table anymore. The research is out that shows that families that eat meals together at the table have several positive results, like children who don’t drop out, kids […]
Joy of Roots
Family Tree From Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much by Anne Wilson Schaef Who would have thought to design a tree such that its limbs, when they become too heavy, send dow another trunk, so that a single tree repeating this process many times over can eventually cover an are the six of an entire block? […]
Connections with Others Are Important, Sunday Thought from SMORE
We build too many walls and not enough bridges. – Isaac Newton
Gail Cawley Showalter 