Today I was thinking about life, goals and dreams gone askew. I read several blogs and one that really touched my heart was "Be The Change" featuring a father's plea for the return of a very much loved son, with advice to him as he grew through the years. There was a post entry called "Picking Yourself Up By the Bootstraps" that asked how people handle adversity and still find the strength to go forward. I know how I handle it, you can read about it here, but what about the rest of you? When life gives you more than you feel you can handle at the moment, what gives you the courage, the hope and the fortitude to keep going? Your words might just be the encouragement someone else needs to keep them going today.

I love learning about new technology! Recently I was reading something on voicemail that I thought I'd share with you today. Many, many people dislike having to check their voicemails throughout the day. I'm certainly guilty of feeling that way. Perhaps you're like that too.

Why? It just takes so much time going through all the options, one by one, delete, listen, and repeat. Ugh!

Well, now there's a way to have your voicemail delivered to you through your telephone's text capabilities.

Apparently, a company called SimulScribe will convert voicemail to text and then process it for delivery using SMS or email. The messages arrive in just about real time and provide the sender's phone information, text of the message and a .wav file as an attachment.

Among the many sweet features are unlimited voicemail storing, an online interface to log into, on-the-fly manageability and a reasonable monthly fee of $9.95 (at time of this writing) which covers your first 40 transcriptions with additional messages costing .25 for the duration of the month.