I met my pal and writing chum Tammie this morning, and as we settled into our semi-monthly routine of ordering some coffees, unbundling our gear at our table at the restaurant, and chatting a few about the recent events in our lives, our talk touched on current life and relationships, and my mind revisited...
Read more →It’s 8 PM on this Friday night, and I find myself ready to go to sleep, which is often a rarity for me. But for whatever reason, it has felt like a long week this week, and my body seems to be saying it could use a break. I’ve been re-reading simple sentences three...
Read more →I live my life in a fairly large sphere of silence, and I guess I make it that way. It’s not that I am not without noise and distraction around me, because I am usually busy doing something with the TV or a radio on nearby, feeding me music and talk. I just don’t...
Read more →As an armchair psychologist, I am always pretty interested in how to better understand people. I came across a pretty good list today of a number of counseling-related books that I’ve either heard good things about or read, so I thought I would also share it here. Many of these resources are from a...
Read more →I think I’ve started six blog posts in the last month, and all of them with great seed ideas, but as I’ve tried to work through them, tapping ideas out onto the screen, the ideas have just wilted and died. I don’t know if this is writer’s block, or more broadly, just an alive-r’s...
Read more →I had lunch with my good friend Jenise today, and we took some time to visit about what has been going on in our lives the last week or so. At one point, she asked me about how things were going in our church small group. “Things in our small group have been pretty...
Read more →It’s about 10 AM this morning, and I am back at work after an extended weekend. I feel pretty much today like the sky was this morning when I got up: dark, a bit on the cold side, and partly cloudy with a decent chance of precipitation. Sometimes for me, it’s simply a fight...
Read more →I wrote this up about a month and a half ago. Thinking back over the last few years, and also about the plateau of what’s left of my life before me, I asked myself, “What is really important to me? What does a meaningful life look like when it is done?” It certainly would...
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