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FATHERHOOD QUESTION: WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO LEARN YOU’D BE A DAD?

July 3, 2020 by

A fatherhood question ought to have an easy answer. I’m a dad, but when asked how it felt when I first heard I’d made the team I was stumped for an answer. And it wasn’t a complicated question. How did I feel? Really?

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HEALING HEART STARTS IN THE KITCHEN

June 7, 2020 by

If making a difference matters, and it does, a healing heart is important. But, you know this, right? Model a healing heart like no one is watching.

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TOUGH PEOPLE IN TOUGH TIMES KNOW THEIR ROLE

June 2, 2020 by

via deviantart.com Tough people, those who’ve been through a few fires and got singed, scorched, and burned; those who have stood the heat and not taken an easy out, are treasures. Tough times try everyone, but tough people don’t let it define them in words or action. They will be scarred and bent, but not […]

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ASMR: BETTER THAN THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

April 22, 2020 by

ASMR, autonomous sensory meridian response. If you’ve never heard of it, now you have. It may sound like something explained by science, but I don’t think so. It’s more a feeling, a feeling I call the ‘Barry White Response.’

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DAD BOSS TAKES A STAND, (with wife’s approval)

April 7, 2020 by

Every dad boss worth a damn had the right woman for back up. Is it true? Sift through the sands in your hourglass for the outstanding influencers in your life. Go ahead, I’ll wait . . . If you remember that teacher, that coach, that neighbor, for their insight on situations good and bad, men […]

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LOVE RULES ON PORTLAND PARK BLOCKS AND BLACK HEARTS

March 4, 2020 by

It was a dark and stormy night for love rules? No, not stormy, but dark, and I was in a certain space somewhere between regret and remorse. So maybe it was stormy after all, my own little shower of despair. It started with a conversation inside a Willamette Writers meeting, which is always a challenge. […]

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WHY HEART BREAKS NEVER BREAK EVEN FOR ANYONE

January 31, 2020 by

Like serious illness, heart breaks are best left for others, not you and I. It’s just easier when it’s someone else. At a distance. The further the better. That way you can learn from them in case it happens to you.

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WHY AMERICAN MILITARY ARE STATIONED IN GERMANY AND JAPAN

January 30, 2020 by

My sources say over 33,000 US military personnel live in Germany, and 50,000 in Japan when their census came in in 2013. I’m part of the chorus asking, “Why?” Then I remember WWII.

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LONDON HEATHROW, LAST LOOK FOR NOW

October 1, 2019 by

The beauty of world capitols like London and Paris shine through on the way out. Not often is the airport one of the most memorable places, and it shouldn’t be, but based on shopping opportunities Heathrow is a must see.

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AGING GRACEFULLY SINCE AGE HAPPENS? OKAY, BUT …

June 10, 2019 by

If you’re not aging gracefully, are you doing something wrong? A cursory glance around the modern landscape, from fillers to peels, lifts and lipo, I wonder if the age deal is an emotional reaction to aging, or a fear reaction. You get into your sixties and start looking like your grandpa and it gives you […]

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