As a youngster, our family traveled often and occasionally for long periods of time. My dad worked in the Federal government and he got immense amounts of time off (or so it seemed). He would save up a lot of that time and every three years we’d take an extended vacation. I remember while traveling […]
Today, my fifteen year old son who is in the Civil Air Patrol, Black Sheep Squadron, rode in a small plane for the first time. He even flew the plane for a good while on each flight (he took two flights). He has learned so much since he started in the Civil Air Patrol, just […]
Sometimes, you just have to move forward. When you’ve gotten all the information you can reasonably get and have chosen the most moral path you can, you may have no choice other than to move forward. Those were similar to the words of my father, who, when I brought home my first report card in […]
Tonight, Barb and I saw once again the movie, “Forrest Gump.” I have used it for years in the grief and loss seminars that I have done for long term care workers. It always leaves me in tears much as it did the first time I saw it, shortly after it came out. Indeed, I […]
Some things, you just love. When Barb and I were doing more seminars on death and dying, we had an exercise that we did with the participants in which they were asked to list five things in each of the following categories: Activities that they valued; Material possessions they valued; Relationships they valued; and, hmm, […]