Don’t wish your life away
Just saw a TV commercial that made me want to scream. Scream at the guy on the screen who was making the biggest mistake a person can make. The guy is sitting in the front seat of his car when… Continue Reading
Month: June 2018
The lucky ones
As a public speaker I don’t tell jokes. I want to make people laugh, but not with things like, “Two lawyers and a rabbi are stranded on a desert island …” I never want an audience to think I spent… Continue Reading
A World Cup sidebar
Do you remember where you were when you heard the Berlin Wall was coming down? Don’t feel bad. Most of us don’t. We know precisely where we were when we heard John F. Kennedy had been shot. Or when we… Continue Reading
World class
Forget Colin Kaepernick or any other professional athlete who has chosen to use the National Anthem as an opportunity to protest. Instead, take a look at yourself and how you approach the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. A couple… Continue Reading
Smart guy, that God
Jesus tells us if we want to find ourselves we must first lose ourselves. And if we want to be first, we must be willing to put ourselves last. And we pretty much think this is impossible. So does God.… Continue Reading
Flag’s glory never grows old
I don’t recall how I knew of the John Greenleaf Whittier poem Barbara Frietchie in June of 1967, after all there was no such thing as Google then, but I do recall using its two most memorable lines in my… Continue Reading
101 … and counting
His hearing isn’t good at all these days. Even the latest hearing aids are little help. And he excuses himself frequently to use the bathroom. That’s the Lasix. Water retention is the enemy now. But at 101 years old, my… Continue Reading
G-Day
June 6. D-Day. But as of June 6, 1983, also G-Day. To me, anyway. That’s when my daughter Greta was born. And I was changed forever. Of all the possible definitions or descriptions of me, “Dad” is the one I… Continue Reading
No donuts please
I am celebrating National Donut Day by not eating a donut. I never eat donuts. And that is not hyperbole. I read the average person in America eats 31 donuts a year. I eat none. I barely remember the last… Continue Reading