This is a gratitude Friday post reflecting on my greatest physical feat. It occurred 34 years ago this month. I originally posted it in...

As I look at my life, I count myself as a lottery winner. For the record, I have played the lottery less times in my life than I have...

Julie and I got COVID for the first time right as 2024 heralded in. It is remarkable with all of my travels that I managed to not bring...

While we may think we all experience the world around us in the same way, we do not. The senses actually function diversly in a range of...

Rock and Roll has a rich history. It starts with Jackie Brenston, a singer and a saxophone played born in Clarksdale Mississippi. He...

“Every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go …” ― Stephen King, The Shining The written word has had a lot of...

Perhaps the focus of this post should be on surviving into 2024. What a surprise! At one point in my life, living into the 1990s seemed...

“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot I started doing weekly...

Solstice - derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still") We are in the darkest of days. We just passed through the...

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will...

“If I am wounded, I have in turn been given the resources needed to heal the wounded person standing next to me.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough...

“I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those...

Well, I hope everyone had a magnificent Thanksgiving. It is a close second favorite holiday to Halloween for me. In the same breath,...

I have been writing this weekly post for nearly 4 years, which means around 200 distinct posts on gratitude. Sometimes the topics flow,...

“My Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now, one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it...