Tina Lewis Rowe

Category: Keeping On!

  • Pluto Has Been Waiting Patiently To Say, “Pluto (Hearts) Earth!”

    What is waiting for you? July 14, 2015 will always be a date in the history of NASA and an important date for astronomers and all of us who are interested in the cosmos.  New Horizons, the NASA space probe, planned since 1990 and launched in 2006, flew by Pluto, the small planet, one sixth…

  • Moving Forward–Really Moving Forward

    In the book and the movie, The Shining, by Stephen King, author Jack Torrance types constantly on his novel and becomes more deranged as time passes. When his wife looks at his manuscript, she is horrified to see page after page after page filled with the same sentence: All work and no play makes Jack…

  • Pain, Suffering and Discomfort: Five Principles That Can Be Adapted to Your Life

    If you are suffering from anything–pain, health problems, emotional turmoil, addictions or  disorders of any kind or personal or work problems that keep you awake and feeling out of control–you may have found that wishing for relief can become a constant background noise that is almost as distracting as the suffering. Today I read two…

  • Keeping the Fresh, New Feeling In Your Job

             That  Fresh, New Uniform Feeling In 1972 or so, women officers on the Denver Police Department were given navy blue shirts to replace the white Ship and Shore blouses we had worn with our skirts prior to that time. In a few months, the skirts changed to pants (men’s pants, which…

  • Be Alert and Ready For The Moments That Change Everything

    Do you have a few times and dates permanently printed on your mind because, after that one moment or one event, nothing was ever the same again? You may have had no control over some of those fateful times–although you probably have retraced your steps to see which ones led you most directly to what you now…

  • Where Are You Leading Others?

    Leader-Ship The suffix ship, is used with a large number of words, to designate the condition of being something, possessing skills and abilities related to something, or having the duties or status of something: Readership, horsemanship, fellowship, friendship, dealership, craftsmanship and others–including leadership.  Nevertheless, there is something compelling about the concept of a ship, flags…

  • Three Steps To Getting a Project Finished–Finally

    How to Think and Grow Rich (and also how to get things done). Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), the author of the most well-known self-help book ever published–Think and Grow Rich–emphasized action rather than only thinking, wishing and dreaming. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” “Patience, Persistence and Perspiration makes an unbeatable combination for success.”…

  • Walt Whitman’s Thoughts On Feeling Like A Phony

    In the last few weeks several people, in different career fields and positions, have made comments to me about feeling phony, like a fake, and as though they are playing a part in a bad play. “Sometimes I feel like the biggest fake in the world.” “I feel like an actor playing a part. It wears…

  • Nothing Lasts Forever!

  • The Psalm Of Life And Your March

    My father, Ernest Lewis, often would recite his favorite portion of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, The Psalm of Life.  I heard it many times as a youngster, a teenager and a young adult. Sadly, I didn’t fully understood its significance to him or to anyone who has seen both life and death and who is aware that there is much…