It’s Time to Make a Difference: Conscious Kindness
Can you feel it? The world is on edge. I’m not speaking of countries or wars or terrorism. I’m referring to the everyday man and woman on the street. The world is angry and...
Category: Life in General
Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself…
I think when historians look back on our time, in a hundred years or so, they will label it the age of fear and stress. The media, social and paid, feed society with one...
In the Bigger Scheme of Things…
It’s been a while since I’ve offended a large number of people all in one blog post… It’s probably time so here’s my once a year opinion of football and the American obsession with...
Don’t lie to yourself…
I haven’t had as much time to write these last few months as I would like, life has gotten in the way. Research, however, has continued so that I am fully stocked with ammo...
A SMAFU Kinda Love
As many of my fans, friends, and random strangers that follow my Facebook page already know, I am writing a sequel to the much loved novel SMAFU. Changing firms, getting my clients serviced at...
Driving Home
It hit me the other day, as I drove home from my office, that I’m not wealthy but I have an awful lot. It was the growing number of tent cities that have dotted...
One of Those Days (to appreciate?)
Today has been one of those days, in fact it’s been one of those years. One thing after another has seemed to go wrong in my life, and I was starting to feel a...
Now is the Time (aka Do It Now)
Broken Crowns, delayed dreams, and lost time. Can you recover? In my career as a financial adviser I frequently explain to my clients, particularly younger individuals, the time value of money. I’m not going...
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
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Trigger Warnings for Authors and Readers! [on Responsible Writing]
“I think if you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.” —Neil Gaiman I have to start by...