After listening to my teenage daughter and niece surmise about the “horrors” of several summer jobs, I found myself chuckling to think of the rapid awakening that both would have upon entering the “real” world after high school and college. From their conversation, I recognized that these two beautiful young ladies currently view holding a
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As I sit at the edge of my son’s ball field on a glorious spring day, I am enthralled by the simple beauty of young life. Small yellow flowers pepper the edge of the outfield. Tiny green leaves peak out from trees branches swaying in the wind. Young men dream of the majors as they
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I held tightly to his forearm as we bobbed and jumped in the wet playground of waves. I gazed in wonder at the sea foam as it danced back and forth from crest to shore before disappearing on the golden sand. I was but a tiny spec on the edge of the Atlantic and from
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If you keep up with my blog, you know that my father was a great mechanic…and that he taught me to trace a drive train. What you might not know are the conditions in which some of that teaching occurred. I was away at college when I began having problems with my ’82 Subaru Wagon,
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My daddy is rich. He never earned a college degree. He never carried a fancy business card in his wallet or worked in a high- class office building. An old Subaru is his vehicle of choice… His home boasts of three small bedrooms and two tiny bathrooms (each barely big enough for a gnat to
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Here comes March and I know we’ve all had great intentions of getting or staying healthy in 2013. We made resolutions to exercise, to get more time with our families, or to put a few more green items in our diet. By green items, I don’t mean cans of Mountain Dew! Around this time of
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May you find encouragement in this poem as I often have…I don’t know the name of the author, but I am grateful for the pen that captured these thoughts. Don’t Quit When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the
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In this age of ever growing information, it seems that true communication has become a lost art of sorts. We are constantly giving and receiving information through an increasingly complex array of media…email, text messages, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, smart phones, the internet, …and the list goes on and on. Does sending out a tweet every
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Do you know where you play best on the court of life? In the world of sports, the best coaches position their players to maximize their strengths. Coaches know that if everyone plays the role that he or she does best, the team will perform much better than if players are in positions that
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