Tag: encouragement

On Your Bike!

I haven’t been on a bike since July 1995!  Long, long time ago!   It was 2 months after the birth of my second daughter and I wanted to get back into being active so up on the bike I hopped.  I went out on the busy road only to discover that in the year since […]

Stick With It!

A little while ago I wrote about learning a new language, the challenges, the discouragement, frustration and the slow progress I experienced along the way.  The language, in particular, was Lithuanian, which is accepted as a very difficult language, and I can certainly attest to that! I am just back from another visit to Lithuania […]

Learning Another Language

I started learning a new language a few years ago. Lithuanian was the language of choice and I might say, not the easiest one to pick for a monolingual English speaker! I did manage to learn enough Irish and French in school to pass the exams, but I’m not at all able to hold any […]

Thoughts…

It’s always hard starting something new … well that’s what we’re told, but when it’s something you really really want to do and something that’s inside your comfort zone then that phrase doesn’t apply.  I love crocheting and starting a new project isn’t hard at all, but I have stepped out of my comfort zone […]