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What colleges have you attended? I spent my “working life” in finance and banking. My first job was door-to-door, collecting late mortgage payments while getting spit on and cussed out. It became clear that more education was important. The problem was that I already had a young family with all the accompanying bills and obligations.Continue reading “New Passions”

You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? The whoosh of the ocean’s waves lap the beach like a black lab. I can’t help but stop, and look, and listen. Creepy how the wet sand grips my feet. How did a little boy from small town Oklahoma get here on the edge of the mightyContinue reading

If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? I would get half to my two daughters to split. Of the remaining half million, I would give $100,000 to my church, $200,000 to Saint Jude Hospital, $200,000 to Red Cross.

If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be? I would have a soccer team of 8-10 years old girls. They would have red uniforms with pink trim. Their socks would be red with a pink print of a girl, hands raised in victory. Team name, “The Chick Kicks.” My granddaughterContinue reading “My Sports Team”

What are you most proud of in your life? I can think of something, but it soon becomes a like playing whack-a-mole. When I think of an answer, something else raises its hand, and says, “no, me me.” I could say the same thing about things I am least proud of but where is theContinue reading “Pride With Limits”

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? My daily routine gives me redemption, peace and renewal. It is my comfort zone filling me with energy and confidence to have a productive day. A short outline of my routine is a good nights sleep, coffee and news updates, private bible study,Continue reading “The Habit of a Healthy Routine”

My first thought was of joy but as I wrote my response, I realized what I really meant was gratitude, which of course, contains healthy doses of joy. I start just about every day in grateful prayer, expressing gratitude and feeling joyful for the simplest of things – for my cup of coffee, for aContinue reading “Gratitude”

I pray to my creator and savior, nurture personal relationships, exercise, and eat a healthy diet, though I cheat sometimes. Interestingly, I have listed them in order of importance, which is the reverse of what it was earlier in life. What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

What are you most excited about for the future? I am excited and thankful for the blessing of watching my children and grandchildren grow, work, worship, and succeed. There is also an element of pain infused in each of these phases, courtesy of the darkness in this world. To watch them prosper through their pain,Continue reading “The Future”

Who is the audience? My children, my wife, a neighbor? Have they served me dinner, saved my life or just kindly moved my newspaper from the drive to my front porch? If the question is in regard to a higher being, Jesus in my case, the answer is simple . . . personally, quietly, inContinue reading “Expressing Gratitude”