Do you ever feel that everything is going so well, but you are waiting for that other shoe to drop, that ominous feeling things are too good? This morning I heard a loud bang on our glass door. Since we live out in the country, I knew it wasn’t someone knocking hard. Although I initially dismissed it, our dog did not. He found the remnants of a dead bird lying on our porch. Generally, a dead bird is a bad omen that someone is about to die or something in your life will end. It is human nature to think the worse, but why not celebrate success instead of waiting for doom and gloom? Yes, there will be setbacks, the other shoe dropping or a bird, but celebrating along the way will give you the resilience to achieve your life goals so you can live up to your full potential.

Moving into Walnut Spring with her brother Otey after her husband’s death in 1903, Lulu became the wage earner. Her position in 1905 was the Blacksburg, VA Postmaster. In 1910 she bought the Alexander Black House on the corner of Draper and Clay Street in downtown Blacksburg. She and the children moved there, but the young widow, only 31 years after her husband’s death, must have had difficulty raising six children. In 1915 she decided to get wed again to John James Davis, a professor who was 12 years younger.