You’re out with your friends listening to their stories of finding the perfect one. You see the flush on their cheeks, the gleam in their eyes. There’s just something about love that makes a person come alive, that gives them hope, helps them hold on. Oh, how you want to be a part of that! Then one day, it happened… All of those fears you were feeling came to an…
When I was a young child, I never thought that I shared an especially close relationship with my father. I always respected and loved him very much but we never really talked about anything that I thought was meaningful. He would teach me how to do things like how to throw a ball or how to safely use a saw, but we didn’t have the father-daughter talks about emotional stuff. I thought that was just…
True success must benefit all areas of your life, if not, it is simply a tradeoff. Don’t settle for one-dimensional success. You deserve to create your own unique balance which allows you to enjoy fulfillment in all aspects of your life. Almost all of us need to work to support ourselves and our family. But being a slave to your job, no matter how high up the corporate ladder that allows you to climb, will never…
It’s not every day that you find a great opportunity to instill a life lesson in your child. Finding a set of circumstances that will supply enough wow factor to really make a child of 9 or 10 ponder some cerebral topics is quite rare. And it’s even rarer for the event or activity to have a lasting effect on a child. But on occasion, it happens and the results are truly amazing. A…
Every summer my brothers, cousins and I would go and stay at my grandparent’s house. These were, without doubt, the best three weeks of the year. My grandfather, a rugged outdoorsman-type, loved taking us out to play. Playing Game Gear and watching TV all day was not an option. He was a giant tree of a man, palms rough from a lifetime of work. What was left of his hair was a…
We have all experienced difficult times when we thought that things just couldn’t get any worse. And usually, that is very far from the truth. But because we tend to think only about our own little slice of the world, we believe it. But later, often times much later, we learn that what we thought was our deepest darkest fear, could really have been far worse. At that point, it becomes clear that…
People have often said when I was growing up that I had my dad’s eyes, a somewhat unique blue, and that always makes me smile. As you read my writing, you will quickly learn that my dad was one of my greatest heroes throughout much of my life. With the exception of a few years in my teens, I just knew that he was a pretty smart old guy. And in reality, he was always…
We all face challenges, moments when we question ourselves, our beliefs and even those whom we hold most dear but that is all part of our journey. And all of those events allow us to see life from a variety of different angles. During the difficult times, it feels like we can’t even look up far enough to see the light, but we always seem to find a way to fight back up to it…
“Why, why am I still here.” Her question to me was so simple, and her labored words told me just how much she wanted to be done here. But I had no definitive answer for her other than these difficult words. At 87, no one more deserves freedom and peace than you. But I’m a believer- and so are you, in a higher power. And that power protects us and guides…
Change can be a good thing. Think of the changes you undergo on your journey as a means of honing the person who you are becoming. In my youth, I was quiet but with a well concealed wild side. I would act now and think later which often resulted in a somewhat negative outcome. In addition, I turned out to be a very slow learner when it came to learning from others. For some odd…