There are many things to celebrate this Mother’s Day. First of course is remembering my mother, Evelyn, born in 1919 and died in 2014. While she was never a perfect mother, she did the best she could, and I’m so thankful that in later years we became very close. Other than knowing I would miss […]
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Yesterday, Easter Sunday, while talking with one of my sons, the conversation moved from talking about guitars and guitar players – one very talented one I recently met on Twitter Matt Steady – to my father – a talented player himself – to my father’s dementia from Alzheimer’s. Whew! That’s one of the longest, disconnected
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Just want to wish everyone who celebrates Easter a happy and blessed Holiday. No matter what religion one espouses, spring is always a time of great renewal of our earth as flowers blossom, trees burst forth with new leaves, and there seems to be an air of great anticipation and eagerness about us. So I
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Since so much of the United States has been hit with piles of snow and some really cold temperatures, I thought it would be fun to look at the upside of this kind of winter weather. You know, building snow people, sledding, skating, and snowball fights. When I was a kid, some of my cousins
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Today I decided to share some snippets from older posts. I’ve been perusing them to relive some special memories, and I thought you might like to look back with me. The end of a year, and the beginning of a new one, always seems to be a good time for reviewing and taking stock. This
For all of my Christian friends and readers, I want to wish you all a Merry and Blessed Day today. For those celebrating other winter solstice holidays, I wish you peace and blessings, too. I don’t think one holiday takes away from any other, as the magic of the season transcends any religious bounds. I
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Perhaps, like me, you need a bit of humor to lift your spirits – no matter the reason for needing the lift. Humor has always been a stalwart in my family, and we used it to get through many a tough time. If there is something weighing you down right now, I hope this excerpt
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Because the world may expect, even demand perfection, we can be hard on ourselves, expecting only perfection. Guess what? We are human, we are not perfect, we will fail. And when we do, it is alright to get up and try again. Just because we fail does not mean we are a failure. Every mistake
This essay was written in 2010, and sadly it is still relevant. As anyone in retail can attest to, the day after Thanksgiving is like a zoo that has had all the cages opened. I remember a time when shopping the day after Thanksgiving was fun. A lot of people were doing the same thing,
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For all of my American readers, I send out a heartfelt Happy Thanksgiving. I hope your day is blessed by the love of family, good food, and all the things that make lasting memories. Enjoy this picture I colored. The following was first a column for the Plano Star Courier back when I wrote a
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