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Over the years I have been plagued with a common malady that effects many people around the world. It may be rampant enough to be considered a disease, or maybe it would be classified as a mental disorder. At the very least it is like a skin rash that won’t go away. I have been … Read more

So, as May winds down to the end, my son is at boot camp, my daughter off on a mission trip for five weeks and I have some time for reflection … I am blank. I feel like I should not be blank, that I should be having some profound thoughts, but none will come. … Read more

How many times have you run into that person that just is so … irritating  …. frustrating … not, you! I mean really! How dare these people not do, say, feel the same way we do! We have a tendency to want others to be like us and we can be quick to judge others … Read more

As we slip into May spring begins to give way to summer. I will soon celebrate my fifty third year on the Earth and my thirty third year of marriage. Today, May 1st, our son got married to a wonderful girl. On the 21st he will leave his new wife for boot camp and a … Read more

I am rereading Bob Buford’s “Half Time”, which is a wonderful and inspiring book if you have not read it. Regardless of whether you are in the second half of your life (past 50 like me) or not it is well worth the read and a book that I suspect would remain in your library. … Read more

The view out of my study window is not, as a writer, what one would necessarily hope for. There is a beautiful Sweetgum tree in my front yard that is almost perfectly centered in this window. Beyond, where when we moved here there was only pasture land, I have a view between two houses. My … Read more