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 [...]

As far as I’ve been able to tell we build an image of ourselves…a character…and fight like crazy to develop a storyline around what we hope we are…or want to become.  We choose our jobs, friends, lovers, clothes, cars, drink of choice, schools, hair styles, silverware, cologne…nearly every thing with an unconscious desire to create [...]

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 [...]