character: Leroy - 04/27/21 07:33 PM
Okay, so many of us are fans of NCIS. A few of us may have watched every single episode. But even the casual watcher knows one thing – Leroy Jethro Gibbs has rules that he follows. Some of us know why and how that got started. Just thinking about that makes me start to well up.
 
The thing is, we all have our boundaries, our character, our habits and even our rules (even if we didn’t number them). Maybe, just maybe examining what our rules are may lead us to a better understanding of ourselves and our world.
 
One man that I loved … (14 comments)

character: Everything Counts - 03/20/21 08:10 PM
Recently, I was in a LinkedIn class by Zoom. There were dozens of attendees in the meeting from all around the region. In the class, the instructor covered a simple favor that we should all ask each other. It was covered in the class and the instructor said that we should all perform this favor for each other.
 
So, I contacted as many of the attendees as I could. I asked to exchange the favor just as the instructor requested.  There were some that exchanged the favor with me just as asked. There were some that ignored the message that I had … (36 comments)

character: Kathy's Confession - 12/22/20 10:32 AM
She was a cute girl, Kathy. Blonde, fairly tall and smart, too. Always seemed to have a smile and looked to brighten other people’s day. She was actually one of the few people at school that would speak to me. But I remember Kathy most for one particular night.
As a kid, I was the son of two real estate brokers. You know what real estate brokers are like. They can be out until fairly late getting paperwork done. It wasn’t unusual for me to go to bed before they had come home that night. I was an independent kid and so … (28 comments)