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When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go!

Over 20 years ago I made my first video “Twisted Mind.”  This clip is taken from that project. It was made on a shoestring budget and I actually refused to let the first try be seen by the public. [youtube id=”cLejb-p4Q2c”] Eventually I had to “Do it” and get it out there.  Since then, I have lost count of the …

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Make Time to Live!

Several years ago I backed out of my garage and screeched to a stop in the middle of the road. I didn’t have my Day-timer.  (Yep! that’s how long ago it was) Without that calendar I was paralyzed. As I sat fretting over how I could go on living, I realized I had planned the life right out of my …

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Do You Exercise this Source of Amazing Strength!

When is the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe?  The kind of laughter that made you scramble for a tissue and made your ribs hurt the next day. The average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day, a 40-year-old, only four. If you doubt those figures, watch this clip of my four-year-old grandson, Tyler.  Time it!  Then do …

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Are You Having A Contraction?

It’s Lighten Up monday I have a friend that wrote “Good Grief” an inspiring story of how she navigated the stormy waters of illness and tragic loss. She also wrote about the thoughtless things people say to friends in pain. I should have read her book before speaking to my wife in the delivery room!   [youtube id=”ajPhBEVsfDg”] Duh!  Think …

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Where are You Going?

All Roads do Not Lead to Rome…or to Carol’s House. My sister’s directions to her house seemed simple enough: Go east on 494 to Highway 52. Take 52 South to the big sign reading Douglas Trail Road. You can’t miss it. Go east on Douglas Trail until it comes to an end—that’ll be Highway 36. From there, we’re just a …