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NOT a  Destination

NOT a  Destination

Getting stuck in apology mode and marinating in guilt over a mistake is not typically a productive way forward.  I know, I’ve gone down this rutted, worn, treacherous dirt road countless times. I know this.  Yet one morning fairly recently, I found myself tempted...
A Subtle Alarm

A Subtle Alarm

Certain health scares come into our lives as glaringly blaring as a car alarm going off outside the bedroom window at 3 AM!!!  Others can be much more subtle.  Quiet enough to easily ignore.  A few months back, I had my blood pressure taken and it was much higher than...
Paradoxical Keys to Happiness

Paradoxical Keys to Happiness

Is it possible that the risks we take and the challenges we overcome might hold keys to our happiness?  Contemplate with me here, do you find you’re happiest when you are busy trying to figure something out, or when your day is pretty predictable and seems much...
Blocking Your Goals

Blocking Your Goals

Imagine only one team playing itself in soccer.  Each player would have to play both offense and defense at the same time and make an honest effort to both score and block the goal during the same play.  Besides being utterly self-defeating, it sounds like a...
Trying To Do Better This Go ‘Round

Trying To Do Better This Go ‘Round

I imagine most people who consider themselves somewhere on the political spectrum would agree that the stakes of the 2024 presidential election are very high and the results of the election will have at least some direct effects on our lives.  I find late...
Perks Beyond Our Control

Perks Beyond Our Control

A few months back, I was sitting in a lawn chair chatting with some friends, who I’d known from back my college days, in their backyard.  We’d just finished a walk together, through neighborhoods and downtown.  Back at my friends’ house, we decided to relax,...
Stranded Without a Solution

Stranded Without a Solution

While the situation isn’t desirable by any stretch of the imagination, if you find yourself stranded on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere, dependent on a car that abruptly stopped and won’t restart, there are typically steps you can take that will get you...
Daydreamin’ My Life Away

Daydreamin’ My Life Away

While other kids grew up playing sports, music, singing, acting in plays, I chose to grow up daydreaming.   Now just to be clear, nobody ever said I couldn’t do any of these typical childhood activities.   Nobody, that is, except for...
My Perfection Spin Class

My Perfection Spin Class

When I was in fourth, or maybe fifth, grade, my parents got an exercise bike.  This was around the time I vowed to dedicate my young existence to the pursuit of perfectionism.  I figured perfection was the ultimate life hack.  I figured if I could make myself perfect,...
How Much i$ Enough?

How Much i$ Enough?

Suppose you’re contacted by an estate attorney with word that a distant relative has died and left you 18 million dollars in his will.  Never mind the fact you hardly knew your Mom’s second cousin other than by name.  The attorney tells you that in the end,...