There’s a joke about a woman walking her son along the beach when a big wave comes, crashes over them, and washes her son out to sea. She looks up at the sky and she prays and begs God to return her little boy, and as the next wave washes up, the son is deposited […]
gratefulness, hat, joke
The Wall Street Journal, and many other media, are reporting on the red-hot trend of younger people buying flip phones in addition to having their smartphones. The flip phones are being used when they’re out and about, and away from home, to disconnect from the constant lore of looking at smartphones and social media. The […]
flip phone, gen z, phone, smartphones, Technology
The other day I was going through some bins in my closet and found an old t-shirt from a high school football camp that I went to. As I was looking at it, I thought “do I really need this?” and thinking about just decluttering and possibly throwing things away, or giving them away, I […]
baby, dress, football, high school, mementos, memories, mother, photos
Someone sent me a thank you card that has Charlie Brown and Snoopy on it, and it represents so well the easy comfort and compatibility that Charlie Brown had with Snoopy his dog, and probably his best friend. If you have someone in your life who you feel that same thing about, that same sense […]
card, charlie brown, snoopy, thank you card
Somebody was complaining to my father about a friend who was disappointing them quite a bit over a pretty long period of time. My father listened to all the examples they gave and considered it for a bit and then said three words, “Find another friend.” It was an example of my father’s purely logical […]
advice, approach, father, Friend, logical
I have an audiobook app that I stopped subscribing to a few years ago because I wasn’t keeping up with the books I had downloaded. And a few days ago, I was sort of scanning through the library to see if there were books I hadn’t yet read, and I was surprised that there were […]
audiobook, Business, unfinished business
In the wonderful movie, The Princess Bride, the character Wesley is thought to be dead, and people close to him bring him to Miracle Max, played by Billy Crystal, who examines Wesley’s body and announces much to their surprise that he’s only mostly dead, which is still a little alive. It’s a wonderful metaphor to […]
alive, metaphor, princess bride
On a group video meeting the other day, one colleague noticed that another had a Christmas tree in the corner of her office that was fully decorated. It was well past Christmas, and she told us that the tree is up in her office all year, and she seasonally changes out the decorations on it. […]
christmas, christmas tree, Joy, tree
Our office telephone number is one digit away from two physicians’ offices, and we often get calls and voicemail messages from people who have medical questions or want prescription refills. I always talk to those folks when they call, and I always return the messages when they’re left on my voicemail because I think it’s […]
call, phone, phone call, wrong number
