Why fit in when you were born to stand out? ~ Dr. Seuss (Theodore Giesel) I wear a number of bracelets. Currently I have eleven on my wrist (twelve if you count my watchband), though I’ve been known to wear as many as fifteen on that wrist and a few on the other. I also […]
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The End
Some in the writing world are already aware of this about me, but not everyone is. Often, I write the ending of my books before I write much of the beginning. Sometimes, I do write other parts first. But more often than not, I have the ending finished before I have most of the book […]
You Matter
It’s just a small tag, the size of a business card with laminate that reaches out a fraction of an inch. But it’s a special tag as well. At the beginning of every school year, the tiny church I belong in this swath of the Midwest gives out the tags to students and anyone else […]
The Joy of Childhood
There’s a gumball machine at my workplace, one of the good old fashioned ones where each gumball just costs a quarter. Watching the glee on children’s faces as they clutch coins between their fingers and run towards it always makes me smile. The excitement of candy, the anticipation while trying to guess what color gumball […]
On the Road Again
The other half and I have ventured out on a road trip again. Miles upon miles of highway stretched out before us, flanked by farmland. Billboards advertising adult stores, religious messages and everything in between break up the monotony, along with truck stop and gas station signs that reach sky high. There’s also the visual […]
Mistakes
It’s usually something simple, like forgetting to clock out one night at your place of employment or thinking you’ve replied to an email and text when you did so only in your head. It could be something major, like not test-running a project one last time before giving it the green light or sending a […]
A tragedy anywhere….
As you probably have already seen, debris from the Titan submarine has been found and all five men aboard the tourist vessel have been declared dead, killed in a likely implosion. Two were billionaire tourists who were considered adventurers. One was the nineteen-year-old son of one of those tourists who was terrified to take the […]
Let your roots grow wide
In college, I had the opportunity to travel from Orange County, California to San Francisco for a weekend for my California History and Government class. One of our stops was the John Muir Woods National Monument, where I got the opportunity to see redwood trees for the first and only time so far in my […]
Rejoice with those who rejoice
Let me tell you a little story. I once celebrated an achievement of someone. I shared it with my circle of friends happily, making sure a wider circle got to hear about it. I was told by that someone that I had no achievements of my own, thus I had to make myself look better […]
The work is not yet done
Anyone who has spent any time reading anything that I have written knows that, while I am a church-going Christian, I don’t try to force my beliefs on others. I am a firm believer in living in faith, whatever that faith is for someone. But I also am a firm believer in hard work and […]
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