40 & FREE, 40 & FIERCE, 40, half-way, how do you feel? How’s it been, how’s it gonna be? Today we celebrate the fun & fabulous, fierce & fantastic, Susan Carroll Ludlum - my partner and inspiration in keeping this family going strong and together and forward - truly our superhero! 40 today, and you’re …
Category: Attitude
Lyrics Post: “Bravado”
Yet another RUSH song, yet more sounds and words the soak deep into me over and over again. It fortifies me. "Bravado" "If we burn our wingsFlying too close to the sunIf the moment of gloryIs over before it's begunIf the dream is wonThough everything is lostWe will pay the priceBut we will not count …
Considering
Considering the heat of the day lately, I’m pretty comfortable working in the garage. Glad there’s a fan blowing. Considering how long we’ve had our refrigerator, pretty stoked the ice maker started working again. Considering these old boots, they still come on handy when I’m working around the yard. Not the best traction, but they …
Summer Solstice, Downhill
From here on out in the year, the days get shorter. It’s downhill to year-end, good momentum now. Let this fact be a spark for you, for me, that we will see, make the most of each hour, each day. Listen to the birds sing a little more. Worry a little less. Let gravity do …
Another Go, Remembering Howie
He’s been gone a little more than two years now, my old man, Howie Lud. Seems like it’s been closer to four years tho’, after he stroked on New Years Eve 2015. I miss him a lot. So as I look back on Father’s Day 2020, I hope I’m doing right by him; I hope …
“Kept All In Her Heart“
Book of Luke, Chapter 2, I believe is one of the few stories from the New Testament that talks about Jesus as a youth. The story goes, he and has family had gone to Jerusalem for annual Passover Feast. They stayed there for the whole of days, and traveling with a large group, departed. After …
In Honor of Juneteenth, A Reading
So this particular day, the 19 of June, is Juneteenth; and thus, a reading the words of the Emancipation Proclamation. MICHEL MARTIN: By the president of the United States of America, a proclamation, whereas on the 22 day of September in the Year of Our Lord 1862,a proclamation was issued by the president of the …
Running To Stand Still
An old song by the band, U2, an oldie but a goodie, as they say. Sometimes we feel that way, we’re going as fast as we can to keep up, but only just staying in the same place. Sometimes we do the best we can and it falls short; sometimes it’s chronically short; sometimes it’s …
Lyrics Post: “The Enemy Within” by RUSH
Lots of RUSH, lately. It’s been good for my soul. Much needed. Maybe odd, but what can I say, RUSH, it goes deep. “Things crawl in the darkness That imagination spins Needles at your nerve ends Crawl like spiders on your skin Pounding in your temples And a surge of adrenaline Every muscle tense to …
It’s here! “New Dad Lessons”
Yes indeed, blog peeps, I’m gonna go off normal script here as we hit mid-week and quickly approaching Father’s Day. I published my first book a couple weeks ago. I’d love to have you all check it out. An old friend who did the original illustrations for the book had this to say about it: …
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