Thirty Seconds

“Let it go.  If someone or something is making you mad…let it go.” So began my previous post.  It makes sense, huh?  (Yeah…so do the other 10 zillion quotes floating around out there in Twitterville and Faceland.)  I read those quotes…I love those quotes…hell I collect those quotes…but I rarely live them because I don’t [...]

Let it go.  If someone or something is making you mad…let it go. This may be the most difficult, simple thing we can do for ourselves.  To do otherwise…to stay angry and pouting…to hang on to the hurt or inconvenience…does nothing but cause more anger and hurt.  It’s a vicious cycle that burns the clock [...]

I would like to end this calendar year and begin the next with a short prayer.  Join me, won’t you?  Ahem: Dear Universe/God/All That Is and What Not: Please help me to stop being a Hoover…an energy sucker…and a  black hole to those around me when I’m in a bad mood. It has yet to [...]

I saw a man tending to  his wife’s freshly dug grave this morning.  It was covered in Christmas wreaths…small trees with bright red bows…and a few floral arrangements that blew over from the sharp Wisconsin winds. He came to grieve…but the weather strewn ornamentation’s created a task that needed to be addressed first.  He went straight to [...]

I am far, far, far from where I am going to be as a man, father, husband, and person. When I see something I want to change about me I ask the world to wait patiently until I get there.  Actually I demand it.  That’s pretty Andy-centric of me. I figured something out this morning: [...]

NOTE TO MY KIDS: I don’t think you read my stuff very often…but I want to clue you in on something:  I’m as long winded and repetitive online as I am when I’m talking to you.  This post will be different because I revisited someone’s blog…someone I “met” in the blogosphere a long time ago…and [...]