NEW BEGINNINGS Chip and Joanna Gaines are the husband-wife stars of HGTV’s hit series Fixer Upper. Chip, whose entrepreneurial DNA has led him to launch at least a dozen small businesses over the years in Waco, Texas, does the “grunt work” of renovating older houses. Joanna is the creative...
Articles for August 2017
Our Mistakes Don’t Have To Define Us
OUR MISTAKES DON’T HAVE TO DEFINE US All of us make mistakes. With grace and grit, we can learn from our mistakes. And then there are those of us who actually earn from our mistakes. That brings us to Bette Nesmith Graham, an executive secretary in the mid-1950s for...
Water
WATER Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink. Those famous words come from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 poem in which he describes a sailor who, stranded in the middle of the ocean, is...