Personal News

  • Silver and Gold

    As if to add an exclamation point to last week’s mention of living every day, I picked up the last Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros CD this weekend. The very last song on it is a song named Silver and Gold. It’s a reworking of an old country tune by Bobby Charles called Before I…

  • Live every day

    A couple of people that I work with are dealing with deaths in their families this week. It makes for a work environment with a twinge of sadness to it. But it also serves as a good reminder to enjoy every day to it’s fullest and to appreciate all of the good things we have…

  • More about goals

    Following up on that last post, I want to expound on a couple of things. Both of them have to do with personal responsibility. The first is something that should be obvious, but I know isn’t to many people. It wasn’t obvious to me for almost 30 years. 🙂 As we’ve already discussed, you can’t…

  • Is everybody happy?

    I got an email the other day with a sort of throw away comment that bothered me. Not so much in an offensive way, more of a “huh?”. The comment was this “My goal in life is to make everyone happy”. Now that sounds nice, and on first reading it was that sort of self-sacrificing,…

  • Follow up

    I told you earlier about my wife getting a gift certificate for a professional massage and the way the have to deal with victims of abuse and rape often. Well last night was my appointment and I’m happy to report that it was pretty cool.