Last weekend I started reading Bob Mayer’s really terrific book: Who Dares Wins: The Green Beret Way to Conquer Fear and Succeed. I immediately got stuck in the introduction. The reason for this is because in the introduction of the book, Bob issues a few simple challenges. 1. Write down the thing you fear the most. 2. Write down […]
Before Instant Gratification
July 26, 2011 by
The other day I posted something on Facebook and went back to look for responses about a minute later. When I realized what I was doing, I laughed at myself. Then I started thinking about how instantaeous everything has become. And that, in turn, started me thinking about how much things have changed, even in my […]
Sacred Space
July 17, 2011 by
“This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is […]
Life and Primroses
July 7, 2011 by
The yard at the Palatial Horvath Estate has a rather steep hill in front of the house. In the past, before the hiring of Lawn Boy, this has made it a trifle difficult and unpleasant to mow the lawn. Several years ago, I decided to dig up as much of the hill as I could […]
The Morning After
May 22, 2011 by
I had some other plans about what I wanted to post today, but in the face of all of the media hoopla and general laughter about the “rapture” prophesied by wacko preacher Harold Camping, I felt compelled to talk about that instead. I’ll tell you that I do not necessarily label myself as Christian, although I do try to […]
10 Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner
May 17, 2011 by
The real title of this post is “10 Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner Than I Eventually Figured Them Out, and I Eventually Figured Them Out Mostly Because Of the Consequences Of Not Knowing Them Sooner” But that wouldn’t fit on the title line. Oh, my friends, if only I’d known then what I know […]
