There is something about this time of year that makes us all a little something more than we usually are. For those of us that are anxious, it makes us a little more fearful. For those that are us that are depressed, it makes us a…
Reading and I have a love hate relationship. Most of the time my short attention span precludes me from reading very much. But when I do read it becomes my passion, my obsession for short periods of time. My first interlude with reading was between sixth…
Summer has come and gone as well as most of fall. We might just as well say that winter is here even though it is officially three weeks away. Turkey day is almost upon us. If you are like me then the holidays can be challenging. …
Control issues are the thing that can make or break a relationship. Any kind of a relationship including parent/child, boss/employee, friends and romantic. (Yes, I know that is not a sentence!) Here are the three basic control struggles in romantic relationships: Money Sex Children We all…
None of us like to be corrected. We do not want to hear that we are wrong, misguided or misinformed. We all have egos to some degree or another. Some of us are not all that sensitive and some of us are extremely sensitive. Regardless of…
Today was a long ride day with Marius, James, Lee and especially with B.rad. Brad gives me good ideas for writing at times. His topic for today is passion. I bought my first road bike in my mid-twenties. It was a Peugot all steel very much…
What do you expect? Does anybody remember this old board game? When I was very young, maybe five or six years old I received a Tiddywinks game as a gift. I was so disappointed. As a somewhat typical young boy from a relatively poor family I…
Look out Brittany, here I come! Sometimes I wonder about myself. It is too much on the brain? Am I getting old and the mind is not quite as it used to be? Or is it just that it was still dark out in my entry…
Spirit of Giving My son was a junior in high school. He had just returned from an away track meet. I had given him $10 to stop at the fast food place after the track meet as was the custom. When I asked him for the…
Once upon a time when I was about six years old I was out helping my father unload firewood from the back of his 1965 International pickup truck. I remember that truck cost about $1,500 when it was new. Today it would cost close to that…