It wasn’t a big move. I pushed my racquet ball opponent to one side and reached to hit the ball. I fell to the floor screaming in pain. It felt like someone had stabbed a knife into my calf. “I must have pulled a muscle,” I thought. After several minutes the pain subsided a little and I decided to get up and …
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 …
When You Fall! A new Twist on Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again Remember that poem? Kind of a bleak picture isn’t it. Every body falls at one time or another. Whether it is a financial mess, a moral failure, a relationship breakdown or a personal …
Good Grief?
In spite of the difficulties I have faced in life, I have lived a fairy tale existence compared to the pain and loss many have had to endure. I often wonder, when tragedy does strike, how do we deal with it? When one of my friends is suffering how should I respond? What do I say?