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  • Deserts Green

    Perhaps this can encourage someone who is passing through a personal desert or living through a profound drought of dream and drive. There are some mighty oaks around you that can speak to your soul, "You can do it; you… Continue reading

  • Don’t Quit TODAY

    Someone reading this is considering quitting. It is not their job that they are tempted to walk out on, or necessarily their marriage, or anything that anyone will immediately notice. It is something far more important … their dreams. Someone… Continue reading

  • Do the Towel Step

    When I first wrote and posted this article, I was unaware of the dance contest phenomena such as "Dancing with the Stars" that hold so many in such a tight grip of interest. I pass through from time to time… Continue reading

  • Mergers – from Somewhere in the Files

    This email came to me years ago … back in "the day." Yet, it gave me a chuckle again: Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W.R. Grace Company merge to become Hale Mary Fuller Grace. Polygram Records,… Continue reading

  • Feed Your Dreams

    Feed your dreams; starve your fears. Whichever one you feed will grow. Fears will grow to control you and clip your wings. Dreams will consume you and cause you to soar. It is your choice. You will feed that to… Continue reading

  • “Enjoy your life without comparing it with that of another.” – Condorset

    "…godliness with contentment is great gain." – I Timothy 6:6 "The fear of the Lord leads to life. Then one rests content, untouched by trouble." – Proverbs 19:23 "… I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." Philippians 4:11… Continue reading

  • Georgia Griffith, the First Lady of Cyberspace

    Georgia Griffith was the first lady of CompuServe and thus, of cyberspace when you had to explain to most people what email was. Few could comprehend online forums, interactive communications, and what would evolve into social networking. Two events have… Continue reading

  • Controversy

    "No great advance has ever been made in politics, science, or religion without controversy." Lyman Beecher There is one exception: 1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, Justified in… Continue reading

  • “An obstinate man does not hold opinions …”

    "… but they hold him."- Pope _____________________ Recent Posts – Partial Listing Hometown Jesus How Guy Kawasaki Gets Good Stories to Tweet To Be American God with Us by Jeff Neuman-Lee Obama chooses worship over spectacle Three Questions The Pain… Continue reading

  • Be Thou within me, to strengthen me;

    Lord, Be Thou within me, to strengthen me; Without me, to keep me; Above me, to protect me; Beneath me, to uphold me; Before me, to direct me; Behind me, to keep me from straying; Round about me, to defend… Continue reading