

Gratitude Friday - 6 13 2025 – Retreat of Hope and Purpose
“Hope is never the loudest voice-it's the quiet hum beneath despair, the fragile thread we follow when the world seems intent on...
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Gratitude Friday 6 6 25 Always Bet on Yourself
This post is titled what a colleague said to me when I was going through a rough patch over a decade ago. The advice came with a...
Jun 64 min read


Gratitude Friday 5 30 25 – The Sound of Liberation
There has been nothing ever in human history like D-DAY , June 6 1944. It remains the largest coordinated event of all time. On that day,...
May 304 min read


Gratitude Friday 5 23 25 Remembering the Last Pour at the BSC Home Plant
I grew up in a steel town, in a steel family. Every single facet of the world I was raised in was influenced by the second largest steel...
May 233 min read


Gratitude Friday 5 16 25 It's a Beautiful Reciprocal Arrangement
The title of this weekly gratitude post is from one of my favorite quotes of all time written by JD Salinger, below. While it may not...
May 163 min read


Gratitude Friday 5 9 25 - Annabelle Dittbrenner - a Force of Nature
When I think back at the people who have shaped my life, some really stand out. There were several people I was not particularly close to...
May 94 min read


Gratitude Friday 05 2 25 – A US Marine Hero José Antonio Gutiérrez Say His Name Remember His Sacrifice
I recently read a book written by the late Senator John McCain. US Statesman and Vietnam POW. The book was called The Restless Wave, Good...
May 24 min read


Gratitude Friday 04 25 25 – My Back to the Old Man of Stoer as a Young Man
The Old Man of Stoer, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye Scotland I love to travel. Julie and I have done less of it in recent years for...
Apr 254 min read


Gratitude Friday 4 18 2025 – Through the Looking Glass of 1925
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ― C.S. Lewis I...
Apr 183 min read


Gratitude Friday 04/11/25 A Mailman Who Made His Last Delivery
“I didn't expect to do this for a living, be a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs to ... that...
Apr 114 min read