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...

This is all happening at once isn’t it?  This life we have here on earth isn’t unfolding…it’s all happening in a single moment.
I’ll try to explain what I mean but may not pull it off.  I was looking at my gut…which I don’t like very much.  It’s not completely out of hand but a bit [...]

We can be heroes.  All of us.  We can and should start looking at ourselves that way.  It’s not reserved for the famous because to those in our circle…our children…family…friends…co-workers…people in need…we can be heroes.
Great acts do not have to be on the covers of magazines for them to make an impact.  From where I’m [...]

[This is poorly written.  I can do better...but not right now.  I stand by the illustration though.]
It’s Laura’s birthday today.  She would have been 42.  It’s the first time we “celebrated” it without her.  It was strange…and sad…and just another day all rolled into one.  I’m not even sure how to describe it so I’ll [...]

We are born…we blink…and we are dying.  In between we love and hate…laugh and cry…win and lose…give and take…break and grow…stand up and fall down…know happiness and sadness…we are brave and weak…we take chances…but not enough of them it seems.
Some of us have children…and we’ve known them forever.  Some of us have children…and will never [...]

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 [...]