Which first day is harder for parents: kindergarten or a senior year of high school?

August 20, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

“The days are long the years are brief.” That’s how someone described the parental passage of time to me once, and it is probably true. Time usually doesn’t feel like it is flying by while it is happening, but when we look back it is easy to gasp and wonder, “How did my little kindergartener […]

You will never get snared if you do not stray

December 19, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

You have certainly discovered how dangerous life can be right? Surely, by this point in your story, you have faced both demons and human treachery. You have had your back against some walls, and you have found ways to break through other ones. You have won and you have been defeated. You have been both […]

Won’t Becomes Can’t

October 1, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Anne Frank, whose Holocaust diary was posthumously published as the famed Diary of a Young Girl, stated, “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. We first make our choices. Then our choices make us.” Miss Frank was a mere fifteen years old when she died in a concentration camp and yet her writings possess a […]

Your defiant statement

June 7, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

I wish you could see the larger statement that your life is making today. And by the way, I am not talking about the statement that your life is making to your loved ones and coworkers who relate closely with you. Certainly, your life is making a statement to them, and hopefully they will take […]

There is always a rescue scene

March 22, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Every great epic story has a rescue scene. Whether it is evil wizards being defeated, dragons being slain, or Death Stars getting blown out of the universe, there is always a scene where the tide turns, justice and truth are finally upheld, and the heroes eventually win the day. Have you ever wondered why? Why […]