Category: Thoughts

Jim & Wilma teenagers

Video brings back memories

I just completed making a video for my wife’s 70th birthday. That’s right, I said “70”! It covers from her baby picture to our high school dating, college, marriage, kids, and, what do I (Read More)

Peaceful scene

Peaceful state

I’ve reached a point in my life where I’ve settled negative issues with others, forgiven those that have done me wrong, asked forgiveness of those I’ve done wrong, and (mostly at least) forgiven myself (Read More)

Empty shelves during the coronavirus pandemic

The Virus

I went grocery shopping recently. It’s not like the old days, you know, four weeks ago. No, now things are different; the coronavirus has hit our state. My local grocer opens an hour early (Read More)

What exactly is me?

I’ve been thinking lately how strange it is––being here and then being gone. My Mom and Dad passed years ago and so many of their things, knickknacks and valuables, have been sold or lost. (Read More)

On “closure”

I said something in yesterday’s post that’s been bothering me. I brought up the subject of telling a family member or friend something that needs saying. It may be the case that you can’t (Read More)

Urgency

I got some work done on my book yesterday. Perhaps it’s because I haven’t been feeling so hot (probably just a Cold), or because I put that damn counter on my Goals page, but (Read More)

Going out with love

I have a person in my life, someone important to me, who is angry with me. I found this out in a terse text message from him saying “never contact me again”. His anger (Read More)

Normal

What do we mean when we think of some people as being ‘normal’? Those of us who have a disease, such as this “glorious” leukemia, think of healthy people as ‘normal’. We say things (Read More)