I love September almost as much as October, my hands down favorite month of the year, even as detest anything pumpkin spiced. September...

I have been in recovery quite literally my entire adult life. The early days were very difficult. I was 21 years old attempting to stay...

“ Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break .” ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth  ...

“So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have...

“The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll...

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the...

“The extra years that had been returned to me were too terrifying to be beautiful and too precious to be ordinary.” ― Sebastian Junger,...

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ― Bob Marley I love music. Particularly live performances. Music is a...

“Human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in...

I am grateful to live at a latitude in which I experience all the seasons. As life has progressed, I have grown to appreciate the rhythm...

Today is the anniversary of the certification of the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution on July 5th, 1971. It is the second to last...

The title says it all. The three things are intertwined, at least in our neck of the woods. These are things I love, dogs (no not...

48 years ago, two seeds were planted in my life, one was the seed of addiction, at age 11. That age of first use is not that odd, I was...

I have had a few recent experiences that fit together in ways I could not have anticipated. I read the newly released, Profiles in Mental...

DDAY was June 6, 1944, 80 years ago yesterday. The landing of allied forces remains the largest coordinated movement of humans and...