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Self-worth is a firm foundation I dare say not a one of us likes to find ourselves slipping on ice. It often means we’re going down! A slippery foundation from your house to your car is one thing, but precarious footing throughout the months and years of existence on...
A Brighter World "This Little Light of Mine" is a fanciful jingle that, in a few repetitive sentences, offers a mighty powerful suggestion. Here are some of the lyrics: This Little Light Of Mine,I'm gonna let it shine,This Little Light Of Mine,I'm gonna let it...
A Wistful Affection For The Past My mother looks rather elegant, don’t you think, as she poses for a photograph around the age of nineteen? Showing off her stylishness for sure---cloaked in black with a drape of fur---she is (and was) far from colorless! A Flair For...
A Red Barn Story In the era when my grandfather owned an eighteen hundred-acre farm in rural Kentucky, barns were red. Many of those colorful frame buildings still dot the landscape along country roads today. None so nostalgic as the ones from my childhood. I was an...
Good Advice Have you ever been tricked - just plain and simple - tricked? A violation of trust is ugly in any form. Look at these words: scam, bogus, fraud, swindle, phishing, fraudulent, con, hustle. Not a single one of those reminders of trickery is pretty. I...
Out of Bounds! “You’re out of bounds! And you’re not going to score anymore!” That was the yell coming from the boy behind me at last Friday night’s football game. He was not more than five years old, but he was completely determined to exercise his voice...
Emotion Control Is A Contender For Joy Tell me what you think. Is this the coolest cover, depicting the man Simon Hagan—the main character in my debut novel, Eastbound From Flagstaff? How about another opinion? How I do I control emotion associated with...
One Way “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” That's an epic formula for having a friend. In that statement by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was it merely his opinion or can we be confident that the advice will guide us toward having a friend? Is his approach too...
The Multi-Faceted Marvel of An Ideal Friend Connections with other humans and the healthy concept of belonging to another person are part of what we hope for in the multi-faceted marvel that is an ideal friend. From the cradle to the grave, we desire the close...
Self-worth is a firm foundation I dare say not a one of us likes to find ourselves slipping on ice. It often means we’re going down! A slippery foundation from your house to your car is one thing, but precarious footing throughout the months and years of existence on...
A Brighter World "This Little Light of Mine" is a fanciful jingle that, in a few repetitive sentences, offers a mighty powerful suggestion. Here are some of the lyrics: This Little Light Of Mine,I'm gonna let it shine,This Little Light Of Mine,I'm gonna let it...
A Wistful Affection For The Past My mother looks rather elegant, don’t you think, as she poses for a photograph around the age of nineteen? Showing off her stylishness for sure---cloaked in black with a drape of fur---she is (and was) far from colorless! A Flair For...
A Red Barn Story In the era when my grandfather owned an eighteen hundred-acre farm in rural Kentucky, barns were red. Many of those colorful frame buildings still dot the landscape along country roads today. None so nostalgic as the ones from my childhood. I was an...
Good Advice Have you ever been tricked - just plain and simple - tricked? A violation of trust is ugly in any form. Look at these words: scam, bogus, fraud, swindle, phishing, fraudulent, con, hustle. Not a single one of those reminders of trickery is pretty. I...
Out of Bounds! “You’re out of bounds! And you’re not going to score anymore!” That was the yell coming from the boy behind me at last Friday night’s football game. He was not more than five years old, but he was completely determined to exercise his voice...
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“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
“Be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, And tolerant of the weak… Because someday in your life you will be all of these.”
George Washington Carver
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