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Resurrecting the United States
Author’s Note: This was originally written in June of 2007 – 15 years ago. It is still as applicable today…
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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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Reliance and Self-Reliance
This entry is a combination of an updated version of two blogs I wrote about 15 years ago. They have…
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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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Fully Leverage Every Day
I just enjoyed spending a weekend at my in-laws with my wife this past weekend (as this is written). We…
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Managing & Passing Time in the COVID-19 Era
To steal a word that so many politicians are already overusing: We’re living in unprecedented times. As this is written,…
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The Value of a Single Day
I have had several friends make fun of me for my outlook on sleeping. As much as I enjoy it…
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Thanks in 2019
As I sit to type out this year’s Thanksgiving entry it occurs to me that I would never have considered…
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Don’t Let Your Past Shackle You
In the contemporary world there seem to be a host of beliefs, accepted as unavoidable fact, based on assumptions about…
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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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Standing In Line
As with so many of the things that inspire me to start thinking around a topic, something popped up in…
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Is Belief in Karma a Religion?
Nearly every day of my life I hear someone say, “Karma’s a bitch,” or, “Watch what you do; you don’t…
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Recognizing Faith Without Argument
Yesterday evening, in a local cigar shop, there was a conversation held about belief in God. I use the capital…
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Always and Never
“Only a Sith deals in such absolutes.” Obi-Wan Kenobi. I couldn’t help myself. I had to open with that. The…
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Spend Your Energy Wisely
There are many different kinds of energy, and that’s not even getting into the existential discussion about Einstein’s theory and…
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Are Ghosts Real?
This is always a good conversation starter: Do you believe in ghosts? The answers vary from, “Nope. They don’t exist,”…
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Live A Better Life
Almost daily you can hear someone complain about their life, their day, some part of their job or something else.…
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Signs You’re Living Your Purpose
Someone once said that there are two truly important days in our life: the day we are born and the…
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