Thirty Seconds

[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 [...]

I woke up with a huge hole in my heart this morning. I think I had a dream about Laura last night…but I can’t tell if it actually happened or if I wanted it to have happened. It doesn’t much matter because in the end it made me miss her again and it was all [...]

This post is inspired by something that happened to me about week before Laura died.  I intend to tell the story in a future post…but for now I’d like to respectfully submit what I learned from that “something.” Who: YOU What: Live This Day. Today is part of your Thirty Seconds…”the first day of the [...]

Just for today:  Go with the flow. Don’t will the world to adapt to your life situation…go the other way…and adapt YOU to what’s happening in your world. Don’t spend countless minutes hoping the rain will stop because to you it’s dreary.  It’s fruitless. Don’t curse the gridlock even if you were supposed to be [...]

This is for all the lonely people.  (And the scared…and the defeated…and the love starved…and the sad…and the alcoholics…and the drug addicts…and anyone that has been “blessed” with an uphill climb.) Don’t back down, OK?  Don’t get caught up in your story so much that you let the bastards win.  We need you to stand [...]