Women Speak English, Men Hear (I don't Know What!)

From the a very tender age of 13 I was trained in the skills of communication. I was a writer, yearbook editor, reporter and research fact finder.

These skills carried me through high school and on into college. I even had to turn down a scholarship to a prestigious communications school in New York due to tuition expenses...but I was accepted!

My whole life has been groomed to be a communicator. In college, I branched out of written communication into spoken communication with a minor in Drama/Speech. I learned a lot about visual communications.

If there had been a Pageant...surely I would have been named Miss Communications! (read mis-communications!)

For someone who makes a living at communication, you would think I would have a better grasp of the spoken language!

But no!!!!! Miss-communications are my specialty! (Much to my horror!)

I have never been one who could multi-task! It would confuse me to great lengths and I would end up messing up everything I was working on...so I have learned over the years that I should just remained focused on one task at a time...and everyone stays safe!

I should have followed my life rule of NOT multi-tasking this morning...

I was doing some final email communications with my writing staff before I left this morning for a meeting at church. I was showing Brad the new website that is being designed by one of my writer's father.

Some back ground info on my family: I have 3 children named Chris, Laura and Joshua.


It just so happened that the writer I was speaking of had the name of Laura too...

So when I looked at Brad and told him that Laura's father was going to help me with the website...I did not really understand the look of shock and horror that was on his face.

He looked rather stunned and said EXCUSE ME!!??!!

It that moment it was as clear as a bell that we were thinking of 2 different Laura's!!

I was speaking of my writer, he was thinking of his daughter!

Clearly I have a lot more to learn about this issue of communicating! I should never have tried to multi-task this morning!!

Once I cleared up the "family tree" confusion I immersed him in, I could not get past the irony of how someone can make a living at "communications" and still butcher it so unmercifully!!

So be careful when you multi-task! It might end up in your needing a DNA test to clear up any confusion you might have caused!

Learning to keep it simple....
Dawn