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...

I didn’t grieve.  I spent this past year avoiding sadness…attending to stuff and people instead.  I wrote a bunch…formed new friendships…lost others…found my heart and lost it again.  I thought I discovered the fast track through grieving (I hate that word) but I found out I’m not special at all.  I’m on my knees again…feeling [...]

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 [...]

As far as I’ve been able to tell we build an image of ourselves…a character…and fight like crazy to develop a storyline around what we hope we are…or want to become.  We choose our jobs, friends, lovers, clothes, cars, drink of choice, schools, hair styles, silverware, cologne…nearly every thing with an unconscious desire to create [...]

I do not wish to offend.
This has been bugging me for a long time.  The idea that someone “lost” their battle with cancer.  In this case it’s not someone…it’s Laura.  She didn’t lose…and I resent it when someone says that to me.  I understand where that comes from because people don’t mean it in any [...]

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 [...]