by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Living on a lake has many advantages, the peacefulness of the view being the primary one. We are privileged to enjoy beautiful sunsets most evenings right out our back window. When we moved here seven years ago, we purchased a 3-seater personal watercraft. It has been...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Jul 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
This week was educational for me. It has been clearly demonstrated to me that addiction is not only, even not primarily, a matter of substance-use; it is a matter of people-use. To paraphase a trite old popular song, “People. People who use people… are the...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
3/20/12- My Conversations with GodFifteen years ago this week I began a new journey. I heard the voice of God. It was jolting, though an exciting and invigorating experience, too. He spoke to me in a moment of worship, an odd moment early in the morning as I drove up...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Oct 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been pecking away now for over three years at requirements for ordination as a deacon in the United Methodist Church. I have finally gotten within sight of the “light at the end of the tunnel” . It is a great feeling to know that it’s...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Years ago I was a sales representative with a major consumer goods corporation. At the time there was a new way of moving products from manufacturer to retailer, skipping warehousing. They called it “just in time delivery”. The advent of large superstore...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Nov 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
This exercise of blogging over the last 5+ years has been therapeutic and helpful. But I’ve come to the conclusion that, since I’m the only one reading it that it would be just as useful done in a journal, if at all. There’s no point in taking up...
