Our Thirty Seconds is a journey on which we are both passenger and pilot. We make hopeful choices every moment of every day, some more noteworthy than others. Ultimately these choices fill our Thirty Seconds...

I didn’t grieve.  I spent this past year avoiding sadness…attending to stuff and people instead.  I wrote a bunch…formed new friendships…lost others…found my heart and lost it again.  I thought I discovered the fast track through grieving (I hate that word) but I found out I’m not special at all.  I’m on my knees again…feeling [...]

Sometimes I feel like George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” when he’s standing on the bridge after finding out the world was not a better place because he had never been born.  He is crying to God, “I want to live again.  I want to live again.  Please God…let me live again.”
I’m trying pretty [...]

You probably know that I like quotes…but I’m not one to post them.  Once in a while something hits me very hard…and this is one of them.  I  have a friend who wants to tattoo this somewhere on her body  I told her to tattoo in on her brain.
Our deepest fear is not [...]

I’m not a afraid of being afraid anymore.  I respect fear…and it’s time I make friends with it because I don’t think it’s trying to hurt me…I think it’s here to help me.  We’ve all heard that the only thing to fear is fear itself.  Yeah…I don’t believe that anymore.  I think the only thing [...]

Mrs. Humphrey was a good woman.  She had a good husband, and good children who went to a good school and got good grades.  What’s more…she was a good friend to her good friends…and tried hard to see the good in all people.  (Except for the ones she didn’t like.)
Like all good people  she had [...]