My grandsons were at the house this past weekend enjoying a good romp and mess making opportunity (goes with the territory!). Two year-old Tristan, formerly playing quietly with the iPad on the couch, suddenly launched it onto to the floor! So I said, “Hey Tristan, you can’t throw the iPad on the floor! You are…
It’s amazing to me how much we depend on money in our culture and how little attention we actually place on obtaining it. I know the cliché, “Money doesn’t buy you happiness,” but I strongly suspect the one who coined it, didn’t have it (smile). In fact, I’m willing to bet that most anti-money slogans…
I like to tell the story of when my wife and I were first married. We got married in college as poor college students (don’t do that!). Besides the obvious power struggles that accompany new marriage (I lost by the way), we didn’t have any money… Yet, when we look back on those times, we…
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression, “It’s the pebbles in the brook that makes it sing,” right? In other words, without those little obstacles located throughout the water, we wouldn’t enjoy the sweet sounds of the water flowing down stream. And while I love the metaphor, (who am I kidding, I love all metaphors! :-))…
If you are like me (an assumption I like to make because it makes me feel better), you spend a lot of time waiting for something. I don’t mean waiting in the grocery store line, I mean waiting for some event to happen; some circumstance to change; some item to arrive before you can be…
I’ve been fascinated lately with the subject of “mindfulness” and living in the moment. I just finished a great book about meditation and its benefits called, “Mindfulness ~ Finding Peace in a Frantic World.” Now before I go any further, let me clarify what it means to meditate. Meditation doesn’t mean emptying your mind of…
“We don’t need no education!” Well, actually we do. “We don’t need no thought control!” Hmmm, I beg to differ. Yet, despite my disagreement with some of the song lyrics, Pink Floyd was actually on to something… Often we find ourselves in life facing many recurring difficulties that play themselves out over and over again. …
As my wife and I approach our 30 year anniversary (Lord, am I that old?), I started thinking about how two people who got married so young, could have made it this far. Now that’s not to say we didn’t fight like “it was our job” early on or that it has been a…
If you are like me, and I’m assuming you are, then you like to take the time to try to figure out why things are going wrong or perhaps why you aren’t getting the results you desire. And while it is noble to assume responsibility and take matters into your own hands, there is…
My son and I were talking the other day about how negative most people are and how they expect things not to turn out right. You really can’t blame people in that their experience in this world tends to favor negative events occurring most frequently and positive events occurring sporadically. Have you ever stopped to…