We will find a way, or we will make one!
Challenges can bring out the best in us. We don’t have to enjoy them, but we do have to face them. So we might as well be grateful for them because they make us stretch.
Turning Point
I made a promise.
I love fiction – good fiction. Stuff like Lord of the Rings (although Tolkien himself described it as a history). I read the entire trilogy one summer in high school. I didn’t really get at the time that the greatest hero in the story is the lowly gardener, Samwise Gamgee. The character we see in … Read more
Quitting on a bad day
It may be a bad week or a bad day or a bad month. That is the worst time to quit. Never quit on a bad day.
Onto the Bus
“It’s been good knowing you, Mike. Now you have to leave.” It had been over a week since we left El Paso in their old, beat-up, converted school bus. I kind of knew Kim and Kim – yea, a married couple with the same first name. They said, since they had room on their trip … Read more
Stop Dialing It Back
When you’re a kid, small, even insignificant, things can teach you to dial it back and play it safe. We were poor Not dirt poor, not sharecropper poor, but we didn’t have much money. My father had been gone a long time, my now-single mother, and her mother, and my older brother were now my … Read more
