Thirty Seconds

[I was looking at some files on our old computer and found something I wrote about 2 years ago.  It reminded me why I started Thirty Seconds in the first place.  So...if you've ever wondered...well...here you go.  As usual...unedited.  I think it would take away from what I was feeling at the time...even though it's [...]

[Man I hope this one makes sense.  If it doesn't leave a note. I'd love to discuss...] Right now there are people dying…or standing over a grave missing someone they counted on…or hearing test results with a lump in their throat…or scrambling to find their child who was “here just a second ago.” Right now [...]

We LOVE quotes and affirmations, don’t we?  Facebook and Twitter are dripping with them.  I have a stockpile of sayings that I use for guidance and reassurance when I’m having a tough day…but I thought it might be interesting to come up with my own. I hope I don’t lose reader’s because of some of [...]

I’ve been lax on the blogging thing lately because the transition to single guy with kids is more complex than I thought it would be.  That’s life, right? Still…I’m coming to see that the most important life lessons come from the eye of the storm.  (It’s really not a storm.  I’m being a little dramatic.) [...]

I opened up one of my notebooks to a few quick notes I jotted down several months ago.  Maybe there’s a thing or 2 you can take from it.  [This is not my handwriting...but I duplicated it exactly as I found it.]

Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz is kind of a bitch when you think about it.  Seriously…Dorothy was freaked out…wanted to go home…and Glinda had the power to get her there.  So what does she(Glinda) do?  She throws Dorothy in a pair of ruby slippers, tells her to follow the yellow brick [...]