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DO YOU KNOW BETTER? PROBABLY NOT AND YOU’RE NOT ALONE

What age marks the moment when you ‘ought to know better?’ How many times do we get fooled before we say we won’t get fooled again? The first time you got fooled: That was unexpected. The second time you got fooled: Didn’t we take care of that last time? The third time you got fooled: […]

EVERY DAY IS A NEW CHANCE FOR SMALL CHANGES

Every day has promises to keep with miles to go before we sleep. Sound familiar? It was a poem written by an old man named Robert Frost. When I first read ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ I chalked it up to a reflection on mortality. Reading it now, instead of a high school […]

BOOK SEARCH FROM FIRST LIBRARY TO AMAZON

My first book search occurred in the first library I remember. It was more shock at so many books in one place than a search. In a small library in a small school in a small town, I was small and looking for a small book. I still like small books. When I was slightly […]

FRIGHTENED MAN: WHAT SCARES THEM THE MOST

One thing about frightened man is they make lots of noise. They’re loud, yet never ask, “Can you hear me?” Instead, they keep the volume turned to eleven. How can you tell, besides the noise, if a frightened man is also nutty as hell?

SCHOOL LEARNING VS LIFE EXPERIENCE

School learning is the educational experience of showing up on time. That’s the first test for new students. On time? Check. Finds desk? Check. Takes off coat and sits down? Check. As parents, if a kid can do that, then we’ve done our job. Or is there more?

WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

Did you become the sort of parent your parents warned you about? Are you surprised? We had stern warnings growing up about kids from unsupervised homes, which meant anyone different than us. Those were houses we weren’t allowed to visit. It was supposed to be a vaccine against hard partying high school nights. […]

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

Life Lessons start early for writers, then they spend years figuring it out enough to make a joke, a poem, a short story, novella, novel. Maybe more, like a groundbreaking memoir. If it’s worth learning, it’s worth writing about to drill it in. Like most children of my generation, baby boomers, I had it made […]

How Teamwork Is Supposed To Work In Real Life

A team is a temporary group with the same goals. Whether it’s sports, school, work, or family, it’s important to know how teamwork is supposed to work. The biggest element of teamwork is cooperation, which is in shorter supply than most expect. For example, in the armed forces all entities compete […]

HELICOPTER PARENT WISH LIST

My mother discovered stolen contraband the night she pretended to hang up my coat. The ‘hang the coat up’ frisk was a classic move. I’ve used it with my own kids. The item she found was a seventy nine cent writing tablet that opened like a book. She asked where it came from, I gave […]

DO YOU KNOW BETTER? PROBABLY NOT AND YOU’RE NOT ALONE

EVERY DAY IS A NEW CHANCE FOR SMALL CHANGES

BOOK SEARCH FROM FIRST LIBRARY TO AMAZON

FRIGHTENED MAN: WHAT SCARES THEM THE MOST

SCHOOL LEARNING VS LIFE EXPERIENCE

WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

How Teamwork Is Supposed To Work In Real Life

HELICOPTER PARENT WISH LIST

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