My brother and I love to scuba dive. It’s one of our favorite things to do whenever we visit someplace new. It’s such an amazing feeling to be 70 feet below the water’s surface, so close to the sea life that you can (but shouldn’t) reach out and touch it. It’s not ALWAYS so amazing, [...] Read more »
Being Mindful of Emotions
I know this is going to come as quite a shock to some of you, so you might want to sit down and prepare yourself for what I am about to say. If devastating news is something that is hard for you to handle or your counselor is out of town, you might want to [...] Read more »
How Big is Your Skillet?
When I lived in Georgia while attending college, my friends and I would routinely take a road trip whenever we had a couple of weeks off in the summer. I remember one year going to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina to decompress and clear our heads. We had just finished a grueling quarter of study [...] Read more »
The Winds of Change
Everything has a cycle… For living things with a spine, it consists of birth – then there are phases of growth and development –and then death. Other life forms don’t necessarily have a “birth” per say, but when a flower breaks free from its seed it is basically the same thing, the beginning of that [...] Read more »
A Child at Heart
I admit it. I am a child at heart. The center console in my car is filled with lollipops. I can scratch out a pretty good mix playing DJ Hero on the Wii. There’s nothing better than 15 minutes of the Three Stooges. I can sit across a dinner table with my big brother and [...] Read more »
If I Could Be Like Mike
Do you remember the song “If I could be like Mike” about Michael Jordon? For some reason, those lyrics are still with me even though I only heard them a few times. It must be really cool having people sing a song about you. I think this is probably the point where you have to [...] Read more »
Living a Prescribed Life
A mother and daughter were cooking a holiday ham for their family. As they chatted and scurried about the kitchen, the daughter watched with curiosity as her mother cut the ends off of the ham before placing it into an oversized cooking pan and sliding it into the oven. “Mom, why do you cut off [...] Read more »
Life is Short?
“Life is short”….is a phrase I hear all the time. When I hear it I usually joke by saying, “No it isn’t! It lasts our ENTIRE life! It’s the longest thing we know.” “Life is short” is a phrase usually uttered by someone who is trying to justify doing something they are on the fence [...] Read more »
The Tree
I was driving to my office today and noticed, as John Mayer was singing to me once again about heartbreak…big surprise there, that every day the same tree catches my eye. Now, I pass by a million trees every day, but this one is different. This tree is regal. This tree might even be considered [...] Read more »