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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s a new something that I’ve noticed lately.  I felt it very keenly this morning as I did a lingering last look at my 2 youngest heading off to school.  I had a proud/sad smile stuck on my face.  Proud for what they are becoming as they carry on in Laura’s absence.  Sad because I [...]

I went clothes shopping yesterday.  It’s the first time I’ve gone shopping for myself in a long, long time.  Laura used to buy everything for me.  I was too cheap to get stuff for myself…unless you count the occasional band T-shirt, stupid hat or power suit. (Do people still wear power suits?  They’re probably not [...]