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Choosing What to Play

Choosing What to Play

Let me start this by making a public apology…  To my fourth grade music teacher, classmates, my parents and anyone else whose ears had to suffer through my half-hearted attempts at playing the recorder, There’s no good reason you should have had to endure...
If Only

If Only

“If only I had more hours in a day.” “If only there were an extra day in the week.” “If only I wasn’t so slow.” For years I told myself things like this.  I imagine you might have too. Yes, they are just words, short simple sentences, but watch out if they become...
Just Another Day

Just Another Day

Have you noticed how New Year’s resolutions would be so much simpler to keep if life didn’t have the super annoying habit of getting in the way?   I mean, on any given day there are countless distractions in our lives, from devastating fires in Los...
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...