On July 31, 2021, these two amazing people will be married. The young man is my son, Zach. Words cannot express how proud I am of him. Alaina is a wonderful young lady, and I look forward to seeing these two grow together, raise a family, work together, raise a...
If you could choose the life you would want to live, what would it look like? Where would you live? What car would you drive? What would you do for a living? Sometimes it's fun to think about these things; to dream of what could have been were we lucky enough to be...
A story is told of a time many years ago in the Great Smoky Mountains when some pigs got loose and ran off into the wild. No one thought much about it until they multiplied, became wild, and destructive. The people in the area thought they could hunt them all down,...
Ahhh. Fast food. Where would we be as Americans without all the fast food options today? Probably a lot thinner...maybe? But I digress. In the last post, I wrote about Choosing Your Perspective. It is something that is yours, and your alone. No one can take it away,...
If you chuckled knowingly at the title to this post, you are likely on the older side. How do I know? Because I am on the older side. For the rest of you, this was a popular song by Morris Albert that came out in 1974 (or as one of my daughters put it, "way back in...
As of this writing, I have two of my six kids engaged to be married. I am so excited that I am going to be a grandpa someday I can hardly sit still thinking about it. One reason I can't wait for grandkids is I want to see how my kids handle the fulfillment of our...
In this post, we will finish the Goals and Achievement process by turning your Dreams into measurable Goals that you can track and see when thay are completed. If you have not read the previous posts, please go and read You Gotta Have Goals, then Dare to...
This is a progressive set of posts. If you have not read the prvious posts, please read the first one here, and the second one here. Once you have your Dream List, and you have asked the "Why" you want to Be, Do or Have the things listed, let's take a closer look at...
(If you haven't read the last post, please do so first at You Gotta Have Goals.) It's time to dream again. Do you remember when you were very young? Like 5 or 6 years old? The world was before us and anything was possible. You could Be, Do, or Have whatever your mind...
Way back in the 1970s when I was in elementary school, a common question we were asked was, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I wanted to be an astronaut, or a doctor, or a pilot, or maybe a rock star. I became a Registered Nurse, I have about 30 hours in a...