As we were driving to our beautiful mountain getaway in Colorado. My then three-year-old granddaughter, Jadyn, asked where our cabin was located. I said, ” Our place is located right where those five lines come down the mountain and join at the bottom.” I pointed to the lines on the mountain which are actually the avalanche shoots you see in …
What Really Defines You?
One of my first memories is of the day I waddled into the room where my parents were entertaining people for dinner, wearing a low slung, loaded diaper and desperately needing help. I cleared the room! A moment like that might make a person avoid dinner parties the rest of his life. On my kindergarten report card, the teacher wrote …
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 …
Two Job Titles that Should be Life Titles.
Before I knew him, I would see Matt jogging along highway 96 as I drove into town. On my return trip he would still be running. He reminded me of how much I hate young people. At the time I didn’t know that Matt would fall in love with a friend of our family named Lauren. Nor could I guess …
What a Wheelchair Wheelie Taught me about Attitude.
Live with expectancy instead of expectation that’s the challenge I give in almost every presentation I make. Smile and the world smiles with you! Happy face, Happy place. I write about it! I challenge other people to live it! But in a split second I can slip into the same old patterns I so badly want to shed.