Imagine you and I are having a drink at Starbucks a year from today. If 2024 was a great year for you, what will have happened? How are your relationships? Are people happy when they see you coming or happier when you leave? How is your health? Is it better or worse? Are you more […]
Last weekend, our daughter Dannielle and her husband gave Lynnda and me a Christmas present. It was an overnight stay in Morgantown and tickets to the Charles Wesley Godwin concert downtown at the Met. I had never heard Charles’ music. Others obviously had. The place was sold out and the audience enthusiastic. I think his […]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Time flies. Fifty years ago, I left my childhood home in Pittsburgh and headed to my first engineering job after college, in Michigan. I was on my own. Dad died suddenly in August leaving Mom with my 5 brothers at home. Mom would be celebrating her first […]
“Judge not lest ye be judged.” (Matthew 7:1) Jesus said this over 2000 years ago. In other words, don’t judge or you will be judged. Jesus went on to say, how you judge others is how you will be judged. Humans have struggled with this for thousands of years. We still do. It is easy […]
On Thanksgiving Day my daughter, Dannielle and I did 11 miles together. This was our last long training run in preparation for the Kiawah half-marathon in a couple of weeks. I’m struggling with some injuries so this run was a little painful. I struggled but finished the 11 miles. After running over 40 half- marathons […]
