Last week, I was in DC for a conference and some meetings. The next morning, before heading home I decided to take a trip over to the...

Time. I seem to have less of it than ever! Yet, even as it passes, it has provided me so much. The challenges navigated have provided me...

“To be alive at all is to have scars.” ― John Steinbeck For singer songwriter Gilliam Welch, April 14th is known as “Ruination Day.” As...

“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...

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so...

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of...

Three years ago, the state of PA and much of the rest of nation went on COVID lock down For many of us, it registers as one of those...

As I have written about in prior posts, we lost our beloved K9 companion Mr. Tweaks at the end of January. We are dog people. Dog energy...

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” - Philip Pullman My first draft of this...

This is a gratitude Friday post reflecting on my greatest physical feat. It occurred 33 years ago this month. I originally posted it in...

“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves....

One of the myriad of phrases Mr. Tweaks, who we lost on January 29th understood was “show me.” We knew that he knew what it meant...

Descendant from Wolves, dogs are nearly perfect save one design flaw, their lives are far too short. We lost the one who was closest to...

“Hope is a waking dream.” ― Aristotle In what seems like a whole lifetime ago in the mid-1980s, I walked into a recovery fellowship...

In the first week of January, Julie and I watched the JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Tribute Show webcast from the historic Ryman Auditorium. The...