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  Back in seventh grade, in the late 70’s, I joined the schools track team.  The coach asked me if I wanted to do the 440, now called the 400.  Shoot, how hard could it be to run around the track once, I had thought.  Now mind you, I am no runner, but I was young...

  Today didn’t start good.  Meaning, I had a hard time getting out of bed, but because of responsibilities I have and the need for a job to pay my bills I somehow found the umph to kick my feet over the edge of the bed and pull myself up out from under my warm...

  “Dad, please, can we spend the night in the treehouse?”  My sister and I plastered on the cutest smiles we could muster up, you know, the precious facial expression a kid uses to try and sway someone. When we were kids my father built us a round octagon...

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. – William Shakespeare Awe, adversity.  Do I hate it or welcome it?  Not necessarily both but there is a lot of good in that word.  This has been an...

Mornings are the start of a new day, at least once I get pass getting out of bed with the initial stiffness of my body.  But once I’m up I sometimes go outside on my back porch and inhale a large amount of fresh clean air.  You know, one of those cleansing deep...

Yesterday I had a long day at work.  It took me till nine in the evening to finish all my charting.  There was nothing left of my brain but mush.  I needed to watch a movie to help my brain do a peaceful transition to sleep mode, so I decided to watch The Mummy with...