Some years back when I was responsible for fleet maintenance for my police agency, we kept track of the service…
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This entry is being used to announce a new section and effort here on my webpage: a section dedicated to…
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I happen to belong to an organization that requires a “belief in deity” to apply for membership. Now very carefully…
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My family once owned a dog that we named ThunderStorm and just called Storm. He was a chocolate Labrador from…
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Have you ever noticed that some of your friends or family never seem quite as stressed or lacking in control…
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In today’s computer age, days where you can’t look around without seeing someone on their “smart” phone, and times of…
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So, I received a private message on Facebook from a gentleman asking, “What qualifies you to give advice on life…
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I was sitting in my family room this evening watching my favorite television show (not that I watch much TV)…
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A while ago I wrote an article that brought great response about how some training circumstances and tools used by…
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It is an observable oddity of the American society that we sometimes act or behave exactly opposite to what is…
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MAN: an adult male person, as distinguished from a boy or a woman. A male having qualities considered typical of men…
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Near the end of every calendar year… or in the first few days of a new year… huge numbers of…
Continue ReadingLife’s Simplest Lessons
Recently I saw an image through the wizardry of social media and, after having read through it, thought about just…
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As happens all too often in my household, my son asked me a question that forced me to carefully think…
Continue ReadingThe Butterfly Affect in Life
Plenty has been written about “the butterfly effect.” Whole movies have been made about it from dramas about how minor…
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If you Google “rules for life” you get 863 MILLION returns (in under 2/3 of a second). There are whole…
Continue ReadingBrightest Lights During The Darkest Times
NOTE: This blog isn’t being written, or even approached, with journalistic structure or professionalism in mind. The topic is suicide:…
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Just this morning (as I type this) I enjoyed a quick back-and-forth conversation on social media and then via email…
Continue ReadingUnderstanding the Trauma of Trivia
One of the most important parts of communication is understanding or at least attempting to see and understand the point…
Continue ReadingWhat Age is “Old”?
I remember being a little kid… maybe six or seven years old, and my parents were “old” to me. Of…
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