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Happy Friday!
This week I am not writing my normal blog-subject email. The IT folks are working on the network systems this weekend and I am going to have no access to my email. If you are a client, please read the latter half of this email as it...
Read MoreThe Sirens are Going Off!
A couple of weeks ago I was at the office, late in the afternoon, when I got a call from Heather: “Where are you? The tornado sirens are going off. I need to go get Sydney!” By the time I got to the house, the weather had passed (no...
Read MoreWhat Did You Learn Today?
As we embark on another Mother’s Day weekend without my mother in-law, Connie, with us, I can’t help but think she would have liked this topic. She was a life-long educator whom I had as a teacher in the 7th & 8th grades. Heck, when...
Read More#42 – 75 years later
Ok I will admit it: I like history. Not only do I enjoy learning about historical people, places and events, but I also love to visit the places where they occurred. No matter if it is an event as monumental as the D-Day invasion,...
Read MoreWhere’s the Grocery List?
Do you have a grocery list? Do you keep a daily ‘to-do’ list? How about a bucket list? It seems that my life is, and has been, dictated by lists. Perhaps it began with my mother who had “a list” that I earnestly tried to stay off of...
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Happy Daylight Savings Time Eve!
How have you been? Are you ready to “lose” an hour this weekend? I’ve always found it curious “Daylight Savings Time” – what is actually being “saved”? We can’t really manipulate time. Aren’t we just, essentially, lying to ourselves?...
Read MoreHappy New Year 2022!
Here comes a new year. I find it interesting how we look at the beginning of a New Year with such fanfare after all: isn’t it just another day? Nope. We have made it a time of celebration, resolutions, and a time for reflection. The...
Read MoreExperiences Instead of Things
Are you done with your Christmas shopping or have you not even started? I am somewhere in the middle. I’ve been struggling this year with “what” to get people. I typically strive to get something a person “needs” versus something they...
Read MoreLions and Tigers and Bears – Oh My
Author Frank Baum began writing the Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1898 and finished the book in October of 1899. When he wrote of Dorothy’s adventure through Oz, he penned the phrase “Lion, Tigers, and Bears – oh my”. I can’t help but...
Read MoreGame Night
A question I’ve been asking (in the right situations) over the past few years is, “What would your 80-year-old self-tell your present-day self?” The general purpose of this question is to help bring some clarity to a current situation...
Read MoreHappy 74th Birthday, USAF!
When talking to one of my Aunts this past week, she asked, “Am I missing your weekend emails? I haven’t seen them for a few weeks.” I explained the reasons to her about why I’ve been absent, and I will share them with you as well. The...
Read MoreDo You Have a Bucket List?
Have you ever watched the movie “The Bucket List”? Do you have your own ‘Bucket List’? The idea of having a list of items we want to accomplish often comes up in client conversations. In the movie, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack...
Read MoreHarvest Time Food for Thought
Has this happened to you? Since we were hit with this pandemic, have you found yourself shopping more locally? I know I have. I have been visiting farmers’ markets more than I ever have before too. The variety and taste of local...
Read MoreRead It: Out Loud
When was the last time you read anything out loud? Either to yourself or to someone else, it doesn’t really matter, just the simple act of reading out loud – when was the last time? When our girls were younger, it was common for us to...
Read MoreFrom the Sun God, Apollo
It’s the Olympics! It is my (quad-annual) time to be interested in all sorts of sports, some of which I wouldn’t have known even existed if not for the Olympics. Who knew that “Canoe Sprint” was not just an official sport but also an...
Read MoreYou're Now Free to Move About the Country
Do you remember when Southwest Airlines used this slogan? To me, it seems that phrase has never been more appropriate than right now. Everywhere I look there are record numbers of people driving and flying; in my area rentals are...
Read MoreWant to Take a Bike Ride?
Do you like sports? I do! I remember when ESPN (and cable) first came to our area. I was spending the night at my Grandparents’ house and they had this channel that would show sports 24 hours a day. I recall my mother picking me up the...
Read MoreHappy 23.4° Tilt Day
When it comes to the sciences (with the exception of Economics – debatable, I know) I have an affinity toward the physical sciences versus life sciences. The physical sciences just made more sense to me, life sciences not so much. I...
Read MorePlay Ball!
Last week I was unable to write due to my drill weekend. Originally, I intended to put together some (hopefully) insightful thoughts on the 77th anniversary of the D-day invasion, those will wait for the 78th Anniversary. However, I...
Read MoreMemorial Day 2021
It is Memorial Day 2021. For some reason, I have found it difficult to write this weekend and I’m not particularly certain as to why. Last Memorial Day I wrote about reflection and reaching out. Reflecting: I’ve had the opportunity to...
Read MoreA Trip Around The Sun
May is my birthday month, and I really loved having a May birthday when I was growing up. It broke up my year of receiving gifts into a nice triad: August – new school clothes (gifts); Christmas – obvious gift-receiving time; and...
Read MoreHow Many Inches Tall Are You?
When you were a kid, roughly between the ages of 4-10, did you and your friends compare one another by how tall you were in inches? Among my daughters and their friends, this seemed to be their only concern until they reached the...
Read MoreA Mother Lode of Positive Resonance
This weekend is Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day has had many different iterations throughout history. Oddly enough the woman, Anna Jarvis, who organized the first observance of today’s version of Mother’s Day in the United States (1908),...
Read MoreTwice the Heart
Do you like sports? I do! I remember when ESPN (and cable) first came to our area. I was spending the night at my Grandparents’ house and they had this channel that would show sports 24 hours a day. I recall my mother picking me up the...
Read MoreA House Divided
In the area where I live, generally, a “house divided” refers to a residence that inhabits those that are fans of The Ohio State University Buckeyes and some that cheer on a team geographically north of Ohio. I do not have that issue...
Read MoreThe Unsinkable 42
Last weekend we laid my mother in-law, Connie Link, to rest in her final resting place. Connie wasn’t just my mother in-law; she is someone I had the privileged to be part of my life since childhood – she was my Junior High Health and...
Read More“You Can’t Die with Me.” -- Easter Weekend 2021
I began writing my weekly thoughts to you last Easter, nearly one year ago. My initial purpose was to share information, be a resource if you will, to help us all not feel isolated. My purpose quickly morphed into three tenets that I...
Read MoreHow Rachel Became "Rachel"
Personally, I cannot believe it is nearly the end of March. To me it seems like only “a couple of days ago” it was February and I was trying to find something really good for my wife’s birthday (which I didn’t find by the way). Now –...
Read MoreHappy Spring Equinox!
Greetings to you on the first day of Spring 2021! What a different view, to me anyway, the beginning of this Spring holds versus past Springs, especially if we travel back a mere 12 months to last March. This time last year, parts of...
Read MoreDon't Click on It- Call Me!
Do you remember when you were younger and went trick or treating for Halloween? Did one of your parents check the candy packaging to see if it had been tampered with my someone? Or were they overly cautious of which neighborhoods or...
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