January is Hot Tea Month!
January 1st, 2012
Celebrate Hot Tea Month by experiencing some of the over 90 loose and bagged tea varieties at OGW. View OGW’s Selection
January is Soup Month!
January 1st, 2012
Come in to see our extensive selection of gourmet soups to warm up those cold January nights.
Holiday Message
December 11th, 2009
One of the big lessons of my life is that I can’t do two things at once. I have learned if I try to do too much, in the end all the things I am trying to do get short-changed. It was a hard lesson but I am so glad I learned it because it comes in handy at a time like this.
The country is in a funk. The news is full of things I can do without. The weather has turned cold. I feel rushed, over-scheduled and put-upon. Meanwhile I am trying to do Christmas for my 95 year old father, my family, my friends and my neighbors, all while I run the business.
That’s where the lesson ‘do one thing and do it well’ comes in. When I am in the shop I work my butt off to make the holidays wonderful for my customers. With great customers it is actually pretty easy. When I shut the door and walk away I leave the business there. Done.
For Christmas I start with the people I know who most need a Holiday cheer and do my absolutely very best for them. No holding back. Then I find the causes that are important to me- feeding the poor, sheltering the homeless, children – any time, any place I can help kids I do it.
Then comes family and friends and the giving and receiving that make us a wonderful community.
Finally, let me tell you the one thing I do not do. I don’t worry about myself…not at all…ever. I have been given everything I need. My job is to share what I have been given. Besides if I am I working for my own achievement that is doing two things at once and I will surely short-change this magnificent season.
