I am not one for gadgets or the latest electronic fad unless the word functional can be associated with it.

When our daughters were learning to drive, cell phones entered our personal lives as a way for them to contact Mom or Dad in the event of an emergency.  I did so with white knuckle reluctance.

Life and Death reside in the power of the tongue.  Words, mere words, can be an oasis of hope and simultaneously can be considered a weapon, “a flame of fire”.

The passing of Nelson Mandela has been front and center in the news.  I am neither pro-Mandela nor anti-Mandela.   I am a casual observer, never really following his rise to leadership in South Africa.

The word “believe” is tossed about in a variety of ways.

• I believe anything is possible!
• There are creeds that state, “We believe in God the Almighty….”
• I saw “Believe” emblazoned on the side of Santa’s mailbox on a recent trip to the mall and plastered on many signs throughout the store.

  The Thanksgiving holiday has passed with a flash, along with it thinking of the many ways to recycle turkey. Black Friday has morphed into black Thursday evening, enticing us via pressure marketing to get the jump on the so called deals by having us shop all night and allowing what respite Thursday may have […]

Today, we as a people celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.  It is a time to gather with family and friends.  Many of us get to enjoy a day or two off of work.  We will watch Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade with its pageantry and the arrival of Santa Claus.

“I’ve had it with department store belts.  I’ve gone through at least three, maybe four belts in the past year or so. Everyone one of the belts I bought either cracked or the leather casing wore off in short order. The next time I buy a black belt, or any belt, it is going to […]

Today is Friday, November 15, 2013.  You did not need me to announce this fact to you.  In our family’s timeline, today is no ordinary Friday.  It is a day we have anticipated for a lifetime and one that is now here.

Sorry I have been MIA for the past week or so.   Random thoughts have been swirling in me.

• Two days and counting to the wedding of my daughter, Brittany.
• There’s a lot going on at my workplace.
• The days do not seem long enough to cram it all in.

Have any of these phrases, or others similar to them, simmered in your thoughts or shot out of your mouth like an arrow aimed only at the air you breathe?

John Wooden, the late hall of fame basketball coach of the UCLA Bruins, once stated the following quote in an interview with John Maxell:

“There is a choice you have to make in everything you do.  So in the end my friend, the choice you make, makes you.”