It was a Summa Cum Laude of a week!

Women's Day Out in Portales was a real treat again this year. I had the honor of being asked to speak again. It fuels my soul to be able to energize a group. I saw my friend Allison Stephens and got many a warm hug from her!

The office space I am getting for my studio will be available in a few days. I'm very excited about that, as well as some of the great opportunities I've been offered in the last several days. More voiceovers... more speaking engagements... more meeting facilitation. I'm jazzed.

My friend Peggy graduated from Wayland Baptist on Friday. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, with a 4.0 average! Incredible! I cried when they played pomp and circumstance and they filed in. And I cried when she got up to get her diploma. And I cried when they filed out. I am sooooo proud of her. She has accomplished so much under such adverse circumstances.

Colonel Posner and his wife Geri are leaving the base. They are headed for the Pentagon. This is quite common... a two year hitch. I was invited to both farewell dinners... last Monday for Geri, and Saturday night for the Col. The Posners bought dinner for Twila and me and sat us at a Squadron Commander table. Then, as we were leaving, Geri asked me to stay with them when I go to Washington DC in May, and the Colonel gave me a special Commander's coin, one that is in gold. I felt very humbled and honored. What a nice recognition!

So here's today's thought for the day......

You are successful in ways you don't even know!!

Think about it. And consider all the ways you affect others in your life.

Ciao Bella!!

Pam

My Beautiful Friends!

Peggy graduates from Wayland Baptist tomorrow... Summa Cum Laude!! We are all so proud of her. She wants to be a teacher, and she has worked a full-time job, kept up her family life and gone to school full-time. Oh... and then there was that cancer thing in her life. What an amazing woman!!

Another amazing woman is my friend Twila. She left work at the county after 11 years and is now the General Manager of Interim Home Health Care... the first one in New Mexico. Twila is a single mom (with a delightful daughter named Tasan) and she has the most whimsical sense of life. Here's her photo. She's pretty gorgeous as well!

And then there's my friend Karen. She's turned around the business for her company in Albuquerque and continues to surprise her bosses. She's creative, dynamic, tenacious and willing to learn from whatever life throws at her.

Hurray for friends. I have many, and they are all a wonder to me.

And as to American Idol... yes, the right ones are getting thrown off. Many more need to go, however. :)

Ciao, bella bella!

Pam