I was “complaining” to DW about having too much on my mind, too many concerns, and feeling a wee bit overwhelmed and a little stressed. I want to emphasize “wee bit” and “little” because while I might have been approaching a loss of control, I wasn’t there yet. Fortunately I am blessed with a partner who listens,
I looked at the calendar August 15, blinked twice, and realized that ten days ago we were in heavy traffic through San Antonio and Dallas, headed north toward Lake Tenkiller in northeast Oklahoma. The reason for that part of this trip was to retrieve our Leisure Travel Van RV that was stored at wife’s brother’s
I have not seen the movie Oppenheimer yet but it’s on my to do list. In the middle of this ten day road trip we spent a night in Alamagordo which is about 80 miles south of the Trinity site where the atomic bomb was exploded, some 50 miles southeast of Socorro, NM. This area,
Seven Decades: A Learning Memoir was published in 2013. It was a record of several watershed learning experiences in each of 7 decades that shaped and influenced me over those years. What follows here is a brief summary of the past decade in a similar way and raising up a few experiences and what I
All of us meet situations in our lives that are formidable challenges looming large and require us to decide how we are going to move forward. These experiences come in many forms – in a personal relationship at home or at work; a threatening illness or disease; the unexpected loss of a loved one; raising