Act Your Age
Fair warning: This is going to be a short rant about assumptions people make pertaining to age. Just recently I
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Our Warrior Culture
Author’s Note: Republished almost 16 years after I originally wrote it. Still just as applicable today as it was then.
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Getting Hit Hard – And Not Staying Down
“It’s not how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and still keep moving forward.” Sylvester Stallone
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Teaching People To Be Helpless
Most recently I had a conversation with a gentleman who is a Marine, a veteran police psychologist and an avid
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Managing COVID-19 Restriction Anxiety
Folks, welcome to another morning in America. It’s Sunday morning, roughly 10am while I write this. In a lot of
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Age and Assumptions
Most of my readership knows I’ve written before about how age is simply a number. All too often people seem
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Expansive Outlooks
One really spectacular benefit of social media is that it allows you to follow those you choose, ignore those you
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Miles Instead of Years
Some years back when I was responsible for fleet maintenance for my police agency, we kept track of the service
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Solve Problems Like You’re Dancing In The Rain
My family once owned a dog that we named ThunderStorm and just called Storm. He was a chocolate Labrador from
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Six Characteristics of the Mentally Strong
Have you ever noticed that some of your friends or family never seem quite as stressed or lacking in control
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The 12 Best Life Hacks
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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2018 New Year Resolutions
Near the end of every calendar year… or in the first few days of a new year… huge numbers of
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Life’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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Defining You
As happens all too often in my household, my son asked me a question that forced me to carefully think
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The 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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Seven Rules of Life
If you Google “rules for life” you get 863 MILLION returns (in under 2/3 of a second). There are whole
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Brightest 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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Understanding the Trauma of Trivia
One of the most important parts of communication is understanding or at least attempting to see and understand the point
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What 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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Are You a Warrior? BE a Warrior
From dictionary.com, the definition of “Warrior:” A person engaged or experienced in warfare; soldier. A person who shows or has
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