Looking back can be dangerous, in an embarrassing way. The 80’s were a time of tight shorts in the NBA, and Crater Lake. That’s me with my girlfriend’s dog on a summer fashion shoot, a single man loose in the wild. I married that particular girlfriend. We were wedding bound after this trip.
CARE ENOUGH WHEN IT MATTERS, OR . . .
October 14, 2024 by
Does anyone care enough? Yes? No? Depends? Ask someone who cares about everything, all the time, with every fiber in their soul, blah, blah, blah. They care, just ask them. How can anyone care so much about so many things? What’s the secret? Please continue:
BIG TIME TAKES SMALL STEPS: THE GATE
September 29, 2024 by
The big time is closer than you think, closer than I thought. It’s easy to miss if you don’t look closely. The wood in the picture is an example.
ASPIRATIONAL LIVING STEP BY STEP
August 17, 2023 by
Aspirational living has it’s own vocabulary. “I would have done that.” “I could have done that.” “How hard can it be?” Sometimes reality sets in sooner than later, as it should.
FART AROUND LIKE KURT VONNEGUT, IT’S GOOD FOR YOU
August 4, 2023 by
Fart around like you mean it: Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. “You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?“ And so I pretend not to hear her.
GAME CLOCK FUN? IT’S ALWAYS RUNNING
January 15, 2023 by
The game clock of life runs and runs, and it’s running fast. We still like to think we all start the same. No one notices the difference since we’re so busy doing other things. Maybe you’re heard that life happens when you’re doing other things? What other things?
AMERICAN RESUME SHOULD INCLUDE WHAT?
November 15, 2022 by
An American resume is different for everybody. People showed up early, some late, some are on the way. All need to realize what they’re hearing when the chant of, “USA, USA, USA” starts. Too many of the cheerleaders have a poor American resume, and it shows.
KID COMPANY: VOTE LIKE THEY MATTER
October 18, 2022 by
‘Kid company’ is different than babysitting. Instead of a few hours, it’s a few days. During those days you can see what a kid wants and needs more than you can in a few hours. What do they want? They want ‘you’ all day, so bring your best. What’s that look like?
VALIDATED LIFE? GET YOUR TICKET STAMPED EARLY
August 18, 2022 by
A validated life, like a validated parking garage ticket, means freedom. Except the validated parking ticket is more direct. Put the card in the slot, the bar rises, you drive away. What constitutes a validated life that raises the bar to escape the couch you’ve been parked on?
WHO CARES? YOU CAN LEARN WHO
May 6, 2022 by
Who cares about others is a big mystery most of the time, but peeling back the layers shows who’s who. Leaders, the people voted to lead, are elected to care. Isn’t that the idea? When a state like Kentucky puts up winners like U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, you might wonder if there’s […]
