Answered Prayers “Near death”, that’s what the doctors told my parents I was on a cold January afternoon in 1975.  I was 13 years old.  Just a week earlier I was walking home from school in the snow with my girlfriends.  We were laughing and joking and talking about the usual suspects… boys, when Curtis […]

As I stood outside of the radio station with my little brown cardboard box in hand,  I tried to absorb the words the general manager had just spoken to me… we’re letting you go.  It was a more palatable way of saying you’re fired!  But, it meant the same thing.  The job I loved was […]

I was driving my middle son to wrestling practice the other night when I noticed my truck just didn’t sound right.  We had just picked her up from the dealership’s service center the day before.  The truck was just about to go off warranty and we weren’t planning to extend it, so we were getting […]

There’s an old song from the 1970’s called “If it don’t fit, don’t force it”.  So many of us waste precious time trying to force things to work that simply don’t.  It’s a lesson I learned in early adulthood.  When I was 20 something, I found myself trying to make a marriage work that was […]