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NO REGRET LIFE FOR LIVING WITH REGRETS

July 18, 2022 by

Life with no regret, not one, is a life worth living. If you hear someone say they have no regrets about anything, it’s not your job to find something for them to regret. But it is your job to know how words work, beginning with definitions. Your understanding of regret might need an update:

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ALASKA AIRLINES PROMISE COMES THROUGH

July 17, 2022 by

An Alaska Airlines promise is different than Hawaiian Airlines. How different? Alaska sent a refund check this week, a refund Hawaiian couldn’t find a way to make. What’s the big difference? First with Alaska:

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POLICE PRESENCE: BLESSINGS FOR OFFICER FRIENDLY

July 7, 2022 by

A police presence in some neighborhoods means one thing: Go inside, lock the door, and stay away from windows. But it’s my neighborhood. So I checked in with the police on site.

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AMERICAN LIFE PLAN FOR LIVING UNGUARDED

July 5, 2022 by

An American life, yours and mine, is based on a certain freedom. Those freedoms are listed here in the National Archives Museum. If that’s not enough freedom, you might ask ‘what is enough?’

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SPENDING TIME LIKE YOU’LL NEVER GET OLD?

June 27, 2022 by

Spending time together in the right places make the best memories. The guys in the image are two brothers I follow on twitter. One is a sports talk guy, the other is a regular guest. They go beyond sports with their life lesson takes including recipes, medical advice, and their brand of man-knowledge. The tweet […]

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TIME TRAVEL WITH BULLIES BEING BULLIES

June 25, 2022 by

Time travel with me back fifty years. Here’s why: Fifty years ago I was a seventeen year old student following the stream from Miss Spooner’s kindergarten classes at Roosevelt to graduating on the football field where my sports heroes played. It was a good run.

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TRAUMA WORK: WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

June 22, 2022 by

Professionals, trained professionals, do trauma work. They do the work with traumatized people. The work starts when someone thinks they need help, or they’re told they need help. It sounds like this: “You need help, so get help.” Sounds simple enough?

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FUTURE CONSEQUENCES BASED ON CURRENT DECISIONS

June 21, 2022 by

Future consequences were on my mind at the corner store. “What are the chances of anything bad happening?” I said at checkout. “I can think of one,” the cashier said. Whether you admit it or not, there are always consequences, planned and unplanned. For example:

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FATHERHOOD QUESTIONS ANSWERED: WHO’S YOUR DADDY

June 19, 2022 by

Fatherhood questions come up all the time. But they change for dads as they age. If you heard them early they sounded one way; but if you heard them later?

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CONTAGIOUS FRIENDSHIP LESSONS FROM REAL LIFE

June 11, 2022 by

Contagious friendship sounds odd in the Covid era, but what else can you call it? People dedicated to spending time with each other make it happen. The best part is how friendship influences another. If this is your experience also, then you need to answer one question:

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