Cathy Burnham Martin's Blog, page 118
April 19, 2022
Hope Lives!
“Hope is the dream of the soul awake.”
– French proverb
(Photo by Marc Olivier Jodoin)
April 18, 2022
The finish line is in sight!!!
“While motivation fires up our interest and willingness to run the race, encouragement helps get us across the finish line.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin
Encouragement: How to Be and Find theBest, 2019
The Boston Marathon, the world’s oldest annual marathon, celebrates its 126th race today. The participants know that the same skills required to complete a marathon also serve us well in Life.
April 17, 2022
Happy Easter!
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish
but have eternal life.”
— John 3:16
Wishing you sunshine, good times, and many blessings… a life filled with happiness, love, and faith. He is risen! God bless you.
(Photo by Joshua Earle)
April 16, 2022
Husband Appreciation Day
Ron Martin, Babe, Sir Ronald… This is the man who dared to invite me into his life as his wife and stepmother for his children. He is my lover, my partner, and my best friend. He gives me strength and challenges me to be my best. I always endeavor to treat him with kindness, respect, and love. On this National Husband Appreciation Day (always the 3rd Saturday in April), I am proud to keep reminding him of how deeply he is appreciated, too. I am an especially grateful person. Thank you!
April 15, 2022
You Are Awesome!
“Whether we are happy or sad, grateful or resentful, positive or negative, we are equally precious and deserving.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin
Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best, 2019
(Photo by Felicia Buitenwerf)
April 14, 2022
International Moment of Laughter Day
Because April is National Humor Month, this is a perfect time to pause to recall and/or share something that gave you that moment of laugh-out-loud joy or a little chuckle when you needed it.
(Our pets’ antics typically manage to have that effect on me.) If you have not seen the 90-second video from London a couple of years ago of the tiny dachshund that loves big sticks, it is sooooo worth checking out. If you love animals, it’s worth watching again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ggh6KFBIMo
Enjoy a moment of laughter!
April 13, 2022
National Scrabble Day
April 13th is the birthday of Poughkeepsie, New York Architect Alfred Mosher Butts (1899-1993), inventor of the Scrabble game in 1931. Originally called “Criss Cross,” he based it on both the crossword puzzle and anagrams.
In 1948, the game was renamed “Scrabble.” Both Mattel and Hasbro hold the trademarks, depending on whether the game is in North America or Europe. It is said that one-third of homes in the USA have a Scrabble game, along with half the homes in Great Britain.
Oh, and if you want a wildly insane score, theoretically, oxyphenbutazone will deliver a cool 1,778 points if connected to certain other words. Unlikely? Impossible? Okay… you are more apt to hit the highest scoring 7-letter word: muzjiks.
Me? I’ll settle for any word where I can use a “q.”
April 12, 2022
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
Ahhhhh…. Crispy on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside! (Add a rustic tomato-basil soup or onion soup on the side for dipping perfection!)
My fave way to get the exterior crispy perfection is to spread the outside of the bread with mayonnaise before placing the sandwich in the butter melted in the skillet. (Try it. You’ll be hooked.) The ingredients? Well, we all have our preferences. Choose your bread type, cheese or cheeses, mayonnaise or other dressing, and whatever optional seasoning you like. Then add or don’t add other layers.
In my college years, my favorite breakfast was a basic grilled cheese with added tomato slices and bacon. Then I started adding thin slices of sweet bell pepper, followed by a sprinkling of dry onion soup mix. Hubby Sir Ronald’s choice is adding a fried egg and catsup. He also loves it when I grill up a ham & cheese sandwich with a nice country or Dijon mustard.
Let them evolve to satisfy your day’s whims and fancy! Perhaps a pimento cheese BLT… or luscious lump crabmeat and gruyere. One of my favorites since childhood what something Mom made… open-faced grilled cheese sandwiches. Top them with thick slices of buttery muenster cheese and a sprinkle of your favorite herbs.
Ummm… I think I need to go make a grilled cheese sandwich NOW!
(Open-faced, grilled gruyere sandwiches with onion soup photo by Dana DeVok.)
April 11, 2022
Woof!
“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”
-Richard Samet “Kinky” Friedman (1944 – )
American singer, songwriter, and humorist
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April 10, 2022
National Encourage Young Writers Day
Yikes! 57 years ago, several of my classmates and I from Mrs. Russell’s 5th grade English class hit the local news for our “budding” poetic endeavors. David Kehas, Sandra Robinson Zimmerman, (Bonnie) Barbara Mace, and Rob Lamy (misspelled in article.) So, we were 10.
Who knows what authors, journalists, playwrights, and poets are mere youngsters today!?! Let’s give them a word of encouragement!
Write on!
