It seems the only way to break the mood is to put on the right music. I think a good road trip is the way to go. Hop in, turn the key, put the car in drive and then head out on an empty road with nothing but the landscapes on either side. There are times when the...

As a kid, the most common answer to the question “Why?” was a simple “I don’t know.”I would always say the same thing. Why’d you do it? “I don’t know.”I would look away with a lost expression on my face. I remember the time I threw a rock that unintentionally hit a...

Jesus, I say. Where did the time go?There was a little sleepaway camp somewhere up in the mountains of a little upstate town with a lake and docks and a little beach area with screaming kids, running around and lo and behold, I was one of them.There are pictures of...

Social media has ways of reminding us about the anniversaries. from our past. the social media gods remind us of what happened on this day, last year and the years before. These are the old posts that make you say, “Oh yeah,” and remind us of where we were and who we...

There is one thing that is and will always be. And that’s life. There is and will always be life around us. There will always be something. There will be reasons why we weep and reasons to rejoice. There will be incidents and accidents, tragedies and moments so...

I see him now, older of course, and gray-haired but not weak. No, I see him now as knowingly different and aged by experience but not robbed by this in any way. No, not at all. I imagine him the way he might have looked if he were around today. I imagine the things he...

The most important lesson I learned is that much of what I was taught was inaccurate and wrong. Then again, it’s not so much the lesson but the teachers that steered me in the wrong direction. So, before any eye-rolling begins, there is a reason behind this post. This...

Something we never pay attention to is it costs absolutely nothing to have a dream. There are no dues or hidden fees. There is no need to cancel anything if the dream changes. In fact, the only price is the effort to make our dreams come true. And we all dream. We all...

Someone asked why I cry when I do some of my presentations. I laughed because crying is not what people expect. I’m not even sure that crying is something that I expect. Then again, maybe emotion is the best way to create a point. The idea is to feel. The idea is to...

I suppose the saying is when life gives you lemons, you learn to make lemonade. In which case, I think it is suffice to say the year 2020 has been lemons galore. There have been shutdowns and losses as a result of the pandemic. There have been bankruptcies and...