My dad once told me that locks only keep honest people out. If someone really wants to break in, a lock will not stop them. I know this from experience. Last night was the most recent experience. I was sleeping over at someone else’s house. They had asked me to house sit while they were…

Beauty is everywhere. It’s hard to see sometimes though because we get so caught up in the daily grind. We seem to be so busy and moving so quickly here and there, doing this and that, that we miss so much. I remember the first time I saw American Beauty. I was taken by a…

It’s Mother’s Day and I can’t get home to see my mom. I will call her in the morning but it doesn’t feel like enough. So I thought I’d write a tribute to my mom in my blog. Mom, Being a mother has to be a difficult joband one that probably doesn’t come with enough…

There is a movement spreading through the World Wide Web. It is coming to us from sites such as myspace and facebook. There are hundreds of websites that bring together large groups of people who collectively form a community. I must confess that I don’t really understand this community movement online. Facebook is one site…

We always tell our youth that they can do anything, that they can become anything they want to. Is this the right message to give them? It is a lie. We can’t do anything we want. I know from experience. I have failed at a lot of things that I have wanted to do. It…

Who am I? I don’t know how to answer this question. It seems like I have gone through a few different versions of myself in my relatively short life span. If I had to write a resume that told the world exactly who I was, I don’t think I could do it. Come to think…

Have you ever been surprised by what you said? Of course—but that would be impossible if you knew in advance what you were going to say.This is a small quotation from Robert J. Sawyer’s Mindscan. I must say that I am really enjoying this book. It certainly has me thinking about a lot of things.…

A friend told me today that I can be intense and that it sometimes seems like I put across a “my way or the highway” attitude. As soon as he said it, I could see where he was coming from. I am intense. I do like things my way but I don’t play the “my…

We need myths to help us understand things that we are not meant to understand. Myths serve a real purpose. It doesn’t bother me that myths exist that run contrary to what I believe. Anything that helps another person make sense of their life and function more properly within it cannot be a bad thing.…