Took a short trip out to the Cape for an anniversary celebration. (A side note here; it has been our inside joke for years that I was married to my…

So I will remain consistent in drawing upon my time in the woods to discover my personal lessons in life, mostly because that is where I’ve been spending most all my…

We are all born with the gift of choice. Yes, dear reader, I do recall that one of my earliest posts was about choice and freewill. And truly, if indeed…

Bad things happen to good people. True. But truthfully, bad things happen to everyone; no one escapes life without death, which depending upon your spiritual and philosophical beliefs, is a…

The holes let the light in – you’ve surely heard this, or a variation thereof, at some point in your life. The great Leonard Cohen phrased it: “There is a…

A mother’s love – one of the strongest forces in the universe. There are likely few who will argue against that statement. Whether she is still with you, was with…

Where are thoughts and ideas – concepts – born? I mean, the immediate and instinctive answer is our brain, our mind. The adages of “thoughts rolling around my head” or…

The other night I bid farewell to a dear, near lifelong friend. No – not in the manner you may be thinking. He retired, moving on to the next chapter…

I want to share with you one of my favorite life analogies here. I will never claim it to be my thought, my idea. I have to believe it has…

But there’s another model….. And without getting over my head, which ain't hard of late, the truth is that, in at least one model, all the potential joy and sadness…