I remember the excitement of taking her to the toy store and wandering up and down the aisles until we saw it….a shiny red bike. She wanted it soooo badly. We told her it was a bit too expensive. As we started to walk out the sales person came up to her with the bike […]

And then it ends. The lights are turned off, the door is closed and locked, the last shelf is emptied. The parade has moved on to the next town. New dramas, new alliances, new villains and sheriffs to enforce the rules. As you sit back in the rocking chair and look out over the story, […]

Wow! What a workout! It was insane…in a good way. Total muscle confusion.Up, down, front, back, squat, ropes, elbows, knees, overhead, behind back over and over and over again.Why? To establish what?To redefine the possibilities. To refuse to sign out of the challenge. To just see if it is do-able.To not say …can't. To say…will. […]

He always seemed angry. Even in his resting state there was a tenseness and a coiling of his body. Each part seemed to seep with anger. Don't know what started it. Don't know why. Don't know for how long it was that way but it just was his natural state….anger. Over time it aged him. […]

When did smallness become the rage. When did petty become the standard bearer. The disagreements just rage on and on…as if it matters. It truly doesn't. What is the end game to that game. What is the final stroke on that canvas. What does your reactions to small and petty say about your journey. Don't […]

Wisdom. What is it. Where do you find it. How do you acquire it. In the world where no one seems to want to age it is getting tougher to find since no one wants to appear to have lived long enough to learn the lessons that permit us to grow, see the subtle in […]

Do you have a mission statement. A personal mission statement. You wrote it down. You memorized it. It is the meaning of you to you. No one else. Do you have a family mission statement. You sit down with your family and say this is what we stand for. This is what we mean. This […]

I remember party lines. We had a phone but more than one household could use it. You would pick it up and someone else would be talking on it and you would ask how long they would be. I remember the first TV. There was just a blank screen until the evening when a show […]

Now and forever. How long is that exactly. I mean you hear it all the time. Especially at weddings and engagements and anniversaries and intimate moments. Forever and a day. How long is forever and a day. How long is now and forever. Is it just more words on words. The Twelfth Of Never was […]

It was the last week of the last month of the last year of this part of the journey. By week's end the boxes will be boxed, the pictures will be taken off the walls, the awards will be put in a back room, the handshakes and hugs will be exchanged and the head will […]