A book recently published by an amazing radio and print journalist and NPR host, Steve Inskeep, goes by this name, “Differ We Must”, I’ve only just started reading it. It’s about Abraham Lincoln’s approach to our divided country in the midst of civil war 160 years ago. As I think about our country today, we …
Category: Attitude
Share Your Life, Lose Time
Daily Prompt: “Which activities make you lose track of time?” Talk deep with a friend, midday turns to late day, night turns to day, Best of the best, time invested, Priceless GOOD.
Self? What a Bother
Daily Prompt: “What bothers you and why?” Fundamentally, I am likely most bothered by things of self. That is, when one is: Selfish Self-centered Self-important Rude Disrespectful Pompous Arrogant Self-interested … indeed, I suppose I’m mostly ok only when one is … Selfless, And these things are true for me because I believe we must …
Dairy Outloud
Sometimes this blog functions as a diary out loud. Sharing the good from personal experience. And otherwise. There’s magic power in the scribble, and the share out that follows. At least for me. Somewhere in the capturing of the thoughts, the experience, the insights, and then the share, into the air, the ether, the electronic …
Ten Things I Know
Daily Prompt: “List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.” 1/ Music is good for you. 2/ Reading expands your perspective. 3/ Sleep is healing. 4/ Exercise is necessary. 5/ Drinking water is essential. 6/ Gratitude in everything. 7/ You can always choose your attitude. 8/ B.L.T’s are yummy. 9/ Beer is best cold. …
Own Your Scroll
Scrolling through screens, such is part of life these days for many, many folks, Betcha the screen most often is less than three inches by 5 inches, hand-held, always in-hand computer most still refer to as "my phone" ... Scrolling takes many forms, these come to the fore most quickly, Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), dating …
Swifties
Special stuff makes life a little more memorable. Like Taylor Swift Dance Camp for our youngest. She really wanted to go. One week. 10 girls. Modest performance at the end in one of the studio dance rooms. MAGIC. #TaylorSwift #Swifties #dadlife #dadslife #daughters
Teen Therapy
Not for her, for me. Our oldest. First-born. Daughter. Numera Una. Just into the "teen years", and all in all, NOT a major shift; she's responsible, hip, thoughtful, sharp (of mind, GOOD; of tongue, Umm -- I'm learning). So when I say "Teen Therapy" I mean not so much for her -- she seems to …
Comedy Stream: On The Ward
Bits of a dream from the other night, Somehow I had a mixed purpose role, a patient with a familiar sense of the health workers on the unit, I seemed to know most everyone. One nurse or technician on the unit, this guy had to go to the bathroom (which wasn’t immediately near by, apparently), …
Half Full, All GOOD, Ten Years In
On this day, 10 July, ten years ago, I started this blog. I was into my second marriage, our third kid had been born a few months earlier, I was working for the second employer of my career grinding away in the business world, and I desperately felt I had to get "the creative" in …
1/2_Full, All GOOD 