Holidays Archives - Ocean Palmer

2019: Four New Year’s Resolutions

January 1, 2019 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Happy New Year! Here are four resolutions you might want to chew on as you finalize yours for 2019. The year just ended was too loud, raucous, and tumultuous, so I look forward to sneaking quietly and politely into what proves to be a much happier and civil twelve months of sharing, caring, and giving […]

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The Ebb & Flow of Life: How to Survive the Holidays

December 25, 2017 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Good Year or Bad Year? The 10 Things that Happen Each Year Nothing creates emotional amplitude quite like the holidays. Especially this year. Social upheaval, global mistrust, selfishness, and behavioral unaccountability hardly mix a wonderful soufflé. Noise and uncertainty create disruption, as do mortality and circumstantial happenstance. Good things happen to bad people, bad things […]

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Today’s Assignment: Going Old School

December 14, 2017 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

This time of year life seems easy or challenging, headlines scream abuse and conspiracy, and happiness washes upon us either in buckets or droplets. Surrounded by all that, today we are each empowered to brighten someone’s day in the simplest of ways. Today’s assignment is simple. When someone passes by, look at them and smile. […]

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Ocean Palmer’s Letter to Santa

December 11, 2016 by Ocean Palmer 6 Comments

Dear Santa, I am tall and trees are small but I still believe in you. I think you are real, more fervently than my unwavering belief that some day I will get a hole-in-one in golf. Two times I have flown one in from the tee but neither was scored an ace. One was for a three, the other a […]

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12 Reasons to Love Visiting the United Kingdom

March 4, 2014 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I recently revisited the United Kingdom for a couple weeks of facilitating sales classes and sidebar movie meetings in London and Manchester. As I do with every visit, when I wasn’t working I was exploring. I am a poster child for the African proverb that says if you want to move swiftly—travel alone. Doing so […]

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The Only Resolution We Ever Need

December 31, 2013 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

December 31, 2013 During my recent visit to New Zealand’s Bay of Islands I visited the small Christ Church graveyard in the tiny coastal town of Russell. Christ Church is 175 years old. A small modest building, its exterior has musket ball holes from when it was attacked by angry natives prior to New Zealand […]

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How to Handle the Post-Holiday Blues

December 28, 2013 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I live in a city that enjoys three months of each season. With Christmas comes the winter chill and white stuff we dream about as kids. This year things seemed different. The weather turned cold and it snowed a bit but the mailman delivered fewer cards than he used to. Some who used to opted […]

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“Trash Man Jesus”

December 21, 2013 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

My rubbish is quickly and efficiently collected early every Thursday morning, apparently by a man named “Jesus.” I know his name because it came to me last week in a holiday greeting card wedged under the lid of my emptied can. When I opened the envelope and pulled out the card, the inscription read, “Happy […]

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A Shocking Halloween Sales Stat & American Culture

October 30, 2013 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

30 October 2013 Tomorrow is Halloween, my favorite day of the year. I love watching kids have fun collecting and amassing the hoarded joy of childhood — great candy. I am a giver, the bane of dentists everywhere, because I deal out what I loved to collect — big chocolate candy bars, the gooier the […]

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