What does it mean to pick a side? What beliefs go into the decision making of doing so?

Metaphorically, I question, or better yet am visualizing – set changes are fascinating from creation to implementation to positioning the next scene. Is there one I could work on for my little stage? Have we missed something, need to take another look, at the big stage?

Joy! Couldn’t agree more with the Father and his chosen message today at mass.  With the gospel about ‘love one another’ – the path he...

Inspirer, not Influencer To seek to be someone that inspires – is not to be someone that influences. I have no desire to suggest that my...

90-60-30 The challenge has been proposed. In a recent conversation about, what’s my purpose, I put it out to a friend, “I can do that” –...

Life is for Us Life is for us, yet we spend most of our time thinking, acting as if it is against us. Guilty as charged, except I tend to...

2024 - word of the year I am a ritualist about the new year. I imagine I wrote about this back on January 1st, 2023, as well. Part of...

My word is my word... I made a promise to myself, 365 letters. I attempted to make this a practice by the calendar day but as with many...

May 19th - Success... A friend and I were recently discussing success. I asked her, “how do you define success?” “A series of pleasant...

May 18th - Love... When it comes to love, the romantic in me wants it to be all about the feelings. A magic that cannot be explained but...

May 17th - Fear... I am sure I have written of fear, especially given the events over the last few years. We can live life with the dark...

May 16th - Trust... Do we ever really know if we can trust someone? How? Thus, I reason, we create a state of mind around trust. To do...

May 15th - State of Mind... I have begun to create a list of what I believe could be defined as a state of mind and or a chapter in a...

May 14th - Mom... One day in the year obviously seems a small token and reward for the 365 days a mom gives to her children. But grateful...

May 13th - 51 - 57... Not quite a full decade yet, the momentum of the 40’s took an unexpected turn. One could speculate for all the...

May 12th - 41 - 50... I have said it over and over again, the 40’s was to date my best decade! Not without challenges, but I would...

May 11th - 31 - 40... The 30’s are a blur! When you are raising a young family and advancing in your career the days are full and you...

May 10th - 21 - 30... Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star – how I wonder what you are! It is fair to say the 20’s brought some answers for me....

May 9th - 11 - 20... What a breadth of growing up in my years 11 – 20. The schooling, activities, adulthood, so much to consider. ...

May 8th - 0-10... I don’t have the best memory. I attribute it to an idea that what might be difficult or painful to remember, I simply...