I enjoy doing crafts. I just usually don’t have a lot of time for them. So I made up for that at Snowbird. One of the crafts was making a plaque with a saying on it. First, you had to paint the wooden plaque and then carefully peal the saying off the backing and stick […]

  Some people push the envelope, Some people lick the seal, And some people can’t find the flap. – from a bumper sticker on a car in Boulder. As I mentioned, Richard, Malaika and I spent a week at Snowbird, Utah. It was great to see family and Malaika enjoyed spending time with her cousins. […]

It’s hard to believe two men walked on the surface of the earth for the first time 40 years ago today. I was hooked on space flight in second grade, when my mom allowed me to miss class at Joyce Kilmer Elementary School in Chicago to watch coverage of John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth. […]

Last week Money Magazine named Louisville the best small town in America.  Those of us who live here couldn’t agree more.  The article accurately stated some of the wonderful things about living here, but I have a few of my own to add.  I love our annual subdivision parties where I have a chance to […]

  It’s hard to believe two men walked on the surface of the earth for the first time 40 years ago today. I was hooked on space flight in second grade, when my mom allowed me to miss class at Joyce Kilmer Elementary School in Chicago to watch coverage of John Glenn’s orbit around the […]

Traditionally, summer falls between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It’s full of parades, festivals, fireworks and barbecues. But I don’t think Memorial Day and Labor Day should be remembered only once a year. I have a lot of both days.One of my first Memorial Days was the day my sister was born. I was almost […]

My dad, Bob, is a simple guy. He finshed high school and then went into the Army and was part of the occupation of Germany after the Second World War. When he left the Army, he came back to Wisconsin and found a job working in a factory. Bob met my mom when they were […]

I recently attended a series of seminars by Liz Ryan of Ask Liz Ryan. You may have seen her column in the Daily Camera. She was very engaging and informative. I took the course mostly to update my job seeking skills to help my life coaching clients. I now know how to create a resume, […]

Life takes place in the present. But so often, we let the present slip away, unobserved and unseized. Our mind is cluttered with thoughts: while we are at work, we think about vacation, we dwell on the past or worry about the future.Most of us don’t undertake our thoughts in awareness, meaning our thoughts control […]

Very few of us routinely re-examine our core beliefs or write down the principles that guide our lives. How often do you write out your basic beliefs, or explain them to a friend or loved one? How often do we even think about where we’re going in life or what we absolutely, positively stand for?There […]