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...

[Sometimes I think it's cheap to post other peoples stuff in place of my own thoughts...but I'm making an exception to that rule.  At least for today.]
My best friend sent me this today.  I love it because I find myself getting sucked into petty dramas lately.  They have little do with the the direction of [...]

The video you are about to see is called a “palindrome.”  From what I understand it is something that reads the same both forwards and backwards…but with a different meaning in either direction.  In other words…it means one thing when you read it down…and another thing when you read it up…but the words don’t change [...]

[I've been encouraging my youngest daughter to write to her mom when she misses her and it seems to help.  She read some of the things in her journal to me today and I thought, "Why not?"  There are lessons in this letter I wrote to Laura though I don't come right out and say [...]

[By now regular readers know that I write random stuff in notebooks, bits of paper...sometimes click it into my Blackberry.  I found this crumpled up in the bottom of my fashionable European Carry-All.  I call it a "Man Bag," but that can be misconstrued so I keep that between me and my inner circle.  Umm...until [...]

What a day.  Emotions everywhere…mostly saddish.  I got an email from the Milwaukee Affiliate of Susan G. Komen asking if it would be OK for them to honor Laura at the  Affiliate Leadership Conference in Dallas.  I said yes of course…with a mixture of sadness and pride.
For whatever reason that put me in a funk [...]