When’s the last time you lost your smart phone, even for just a few minutes? Were you panicky, freaking out, wondering where you might have left it? I would guess that you’ve at least once been rabidly searching while you were talking on it? Yes, we've come to depend big-time on our technology for so many things. Of course phones, the Internet, social media sites and entertainment are amazing. Unfortunately, there are spammers, relentless ads, political calls and annoying t

My birthday is December 10 th . I actually know several people who have the same day as mine. Of course there are probably thousands, (millions?), of others out there in the world someplace. But birth dates while only a date on the calendar, seem to bring more reflection later in life. And that’s a good thing if we use those thoughts as inspiration, encouragement, thankfulness and a prompting to wisely use the remaining years we have. You see, age isn’t how old you but

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Today we and millions of others have an opinion, insight, point of view, argument, disagreement or other perspective, right? Some of them...

I don’t know about you but most of us, including me, have had recent and past words said to us that hurt a lot, right? They were so...

In 2014 at the University of Texas, Austin, Admiral William McRaven gave a most distinctive and memorable commencement address. His main...

I’m a mountain guy. When I was a kid, my parents took our family everywhere from the Canadian Rockies to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to...

Hey, no matter where you are reading this blog post, take a big breath and let it out slowly. Yep, you know what I’m talking about. Feels kind of good, doesn’t it? How often do we do that just to relax? However, sometimes we sort of do it, but can look and feel a bit different. We'd probably call it more of a “sigh" and sighs aren’t necessarily bad. We might sigh when we’ve worked hard on a project or faced a slightly scary or challenging task. Our sigh at that point is