Often in my prayer time, I consider people and situations that have left me feeling unsettled. More often than not God reveals to me that I am the problem and not the situation or other people. It really is the easy way out to play the…
How often in life I have found that the things I have had to work at the most have been my greatest blessings. I suppose it has been this way even in the Bible as God pronounced that Adam would have to work, “Cursed is the…
If there is one thing you should know about me, it is that I am self-employed. Taking days off is a hardship because when I don’t work, I don’t get paid. The result is that sometimes I don’t take vacations for years. Yes, years. The last…
We had neighbors when we were growing up. Well, we kind of had neighbors. Living way out in the country the closest neighbor was 100 yards (100 meters) down the road. The next closest neighbor was a quarter of a mile up the hill. When your…
When I was a kid, probably five or six years old, my father was big into fishing. We would pile into the truck camper and head off to Pulaski to go fishing in the Salmon River Reservoir. There were six of us total so we were…
1979 found me starting at Cayuga Community College. I was in the Telecommunications Technology program and had every intention of become an engineer at a radio or TV station. That was before I found out that engineers did not make that much (less thn $20,000). I…
My daughter’s mother immigrated to the US from Russia when she was 21 years old. Karen was and is a very intelligent woman, bi-lingual with only a slight Russian accent. She has accomplished much in her life including beating cancer and become a nurse practitioner. I…
Every now and then I get a little stir crazy. Same old walls, same old halls, same old life. I haven’t had much in the way of vacations over the past two years. I am fortunate however to have a buddy that lives on the beach…
I believe there is a fundamental difference in men and women. Men believe what they see. Women believe what they hear. In general women communicate better verbally. When they tell you something, you best be listening because in general they say what they mean and mean…
I often tell people that knowing what to do isn’t complicated. It is usually quite simple. Doing it however can be difficult. Most things in life are the same way. Simple but difficult. We like to complicate things with all kinds of rationalizations. We all have…