Life happens, and I am grateful.

When I consider the options, I choose life, without any doubt.   But that means that I have to be prepared for the ups and the downs.  And clearly there are lots of both.  Let’s see.  In the last two weeks I have been to a 25 year wedding anniversary open house, a high school graduation party, a Memorial Day service and a funeral.  We helped our 24 year old son build a queen size bed with... [Read more]

It’s takes the right tool!

Remember me telling you about the post removal a couple weeks ago.  Well, this is the tool it took to get that post out.   Of course, what you see here is not the post.  It’s a large tree stump that Randy removed with his stone picker the same day he pulled out the post.    Sometimes what you have on hand is not enough.  Sometimes your ingenuity  is not enough.  Sometimes, you need something... [Read more]

Formula to be a champion

Are you passionate about what you are doing? If your answer to that question is, “Say, what?”  I’ve got news for you. You’ve got to start at the first step.  If you  haven’t figured out what you want to do with your life, you need to get that done. That’s the only way to hook your future to your passion. The alternative is to hope for a better tomorrow, or wish... [Read more]

When you are afraid you can’t, take the next step.

Courage happens when we keep on keeping on.  It’s almost a miracle.  I can’t tell you how many times I have looked at what seemed like a task or situation that was nigh impossible and decided that the only solution was to take the next step.  Sometimes the task is physical.  More often for me the task is mental, since that’s more me.  But since physical challenges are easier... [Read more]

You can’t bargain with success principles.

Life is a series of brain juggling exercises.  We consider all the variables that enter into an equation.  We try to determine how each variable affects the whole.  What would happen if…?   Like multiple choice tests, some answers simply don’t fit and are easy to discard.  Then you get to the more complex answers, the more nuanced answers.   And even more complicated, you get to... [Read more]