Here's a Thought

For the longest time I have envied my grandparent’s generation for the 100 year period they lived through.  Their generation experienced the greatest technological advances of all human history.  Their generation went from horse drawn carriages to space travel;...

Thank Goodness for Failure

After getting beaten over the head, time and again these past few weeks with the theme of “failure,” both my own and others, I decided it was time to take a stand.  So here is the stand I have chosen to take: Failure: What a Blessing!!! How sad a state of...

Seven Empowering Virtues

Confucius said “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” That’s generally because people spend so much time looking at what needs to be fixed instead of what is already great. Baseball analyst Bill James said it great: “If you can’t learn to do something...
And You Think You Have A Challenging Day!

Scars: Evidence of Life

A five year old neighbor boy was riding his bike this weekend and in the few minutes that his family stepped inside to attend to something else – he took a tumble. Nothing serious, in fact, as far as tumbles go it was fairly low on the Richter scale catastrophe,...