Which Direction?
Living things move. Occasionally inanimate objects move too but mostly they wait to be acted upon by living things, volcanoes and...
On Curve Balls and Bean Balls
Baseball, the American past-time. More so in years past than today, baseball has provided some of our most interesting characters and...
Diamonds in the Dung
OK, I can be intense. I know that. But sometimes my passion gets me in trouble when I let it get out of hand and run roughshod over...
A Season of Laying Fallow
I have been fallow for a while. Occasionally a person needs a season of diminished productivity, lying fallow. This, of course, is an...
The Past – Reject, Relive or Remember
Among other things, Mae West humorously observed, “Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.” More recently...
Embracing Normal
Having over indulged our entire lives, sobriety can be dull, quite frankly. When everything in your life has been over the top or out on...
When Life Overwhelms You
I have a quote at the bottom of my emails, "I try to take one day at a time, sometimes several days attack me at once." ~ Anonymous. It...
Out of the Doldrums. . .
In the age of sails, crossing the equator was a treacherous thing. You risked the extremes of squalls, thunderstorms and hurricanes or...
Making The Hard Choices
There’s a great scene toward the end of A League of Their Own where Gina Davis’ character is preparing to leave the team before the...
Filling The Void
Change initially creates a void. Whether you are making life changes to achieve a particular goal or recovering from an addictive...