The Secret to a Secret is No Secret
It’s no secret. We all have parts of our past or present we choose not to share with others, or if we share, only with a trusted few. Acts or knowledge of acts spanning the gamut of the imagination stay…
One Sojourner
One Life • Many Roads
One Sojourner
One Life • Many Roads
Category Dispatch
Many Roads blog dispatches
Black Snow, Rotten Eggs and Life’s ROI
Black Snow, Rotten Eggs and Life's ROI
Time is Broken and Comms are Down
Longing for Gravity...Time is Broken and Comms are Down...I know there's message in the melody.
Wake Up and Smile
Wake Up and Smile...Adventures in Snuggle...Laughter is Contagious...Catch It!
The Beautiful Medusa: Writing
The Beautiful Medusa
Writing is a many-headed adventure. It surrounds us (and only occasionally a seductress turning her admirers into stone)...Writing as Therapy... Words Matter: What's Your Matter?...Coda: An Elegy
I Saw God and He Wears Dockers
Day 11 On his eleventh day of hospitalization and two surgeries later, my father-in-law still bled internally. He writhed in pain on the bed and cried out nonsensical phrases couched in delirious moans. “Dad, what do you need? Is there…
Mythdebunker: Gladwell’s 10,000 Hours
Malcolm Gladwell popularized the "10,000 hour rule" in his book, Outliers: The Story of Success indicating the path to achieving world class success in any skill is to amass 10,000 hours of correct practice...
10,000 Hour Theory Failure: Practice vs. Reality...A Star is not Born...A Promise Broken?...Sing us a Song, You're the Piano Man
Are You Tough Enough? Basic Training Begins Now
Basic Training - Stress Management
If you're tough enough to gut it out, welcome to the next few weeks of your life. Basic training is dedicated to tearing us down, understanding the causes which keep us from sustained wellness, and building us into a new creation - each of our own making...Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes...Throw or Go Time...Solving for Life
One More Day
Hospital Getaway
My father-in-law went in for surgery to correct a problem with aneurysms in his upper thigh and legs. The surgery was successful. Yet, his recovery has been difficult. The doctors cannot stop post-op bleeding since the procedure a little more than a week ago. Bedside Manner Sponsored by NASCAR...Our Terms of Endearment...One More Day
Rage Against the Dying of the Light?
Our family huddled in the pew to brace ourselves from the cold slaps the January breeze delivered each time the entry door opened behind us. From my seat on the end, I looked down the aisle and scanned the room.
The chapel overflowed with strangers, dressed in dark suits and black dresses with overcoats tucked between them or stashed under seats, bound together in silent sorrow.
