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You’ve heard it before… freedom is not free. For the United States, the price has been paid across generations by brave souls who fought and died in service to our country. The freedoms we enjoy should never be taken for granted. But have you ever considered how freedom is defined and perceived in other parts…
Details(Spoiler Alert: Scenes and general themes are discussed.) I don’t care how old you are. Go see Toy Story 3. My kids were close to the same age as the character Andy in the first Toy Story in 1995. They are now college age here in 2010, just like Andy in this movie. The Pixar…
DetailsIf you’ve seen an Olympic relay race, you’re familiar with this concept. Four runners work together to win a race by running one segment each. Each runner carries a white plastic baton as they run, and must pass it off to the next in line before he or she can take off. As I learned…
DetailsMy first volunteer experience was forced upon me. OK, maybe “forced” is too strong a word, but I didn’t exactly volunteer to volunteer. I was 10 years old and my brother Jeff was 11. Our mom was a psychiatric nurse at Extendicare, an assisted living facility in southern Indiana. My brother and I were off…
DetailsClearing the bleachers could be a glorious description of a home run ball landing in the San Francisco bay outside AT&T park. In one of my childhood little league games, it meant something completely different. It was an important playoff game in the 12 and under division. Our Farm Bureau Co-op team was up against…
DetailsAmong all the quotable quotes from the great and humble John Wooden, I was most impacted by his three simple rules for his players: 1) No tardiness. 2) No profanity. 3) No criticizing your teammates. These three simple rules have one thing in common… respect. Not just respect for authority, but respect for one’s peers. …
DetailsI sat next to a group of cacophonous card players on the train this morning. I have nothing against people socializing on a long commute, but they were shouting and laughing at FULL volume, as if there were no one else on that car working or sleeping. I asked myself (as I plugged in my noise-cancelling…
Details“It ain’t about you!!” is an often exaggerated tagline from Dr. Phil, but when you really think about it…it’s good advice. The world is a better place when we consider others before ourselves. My personal perspective got an adjustment last night, and it came in the form of a speech by a young man named…
DetailsI just got the sobering Social Security Statement that shows my lifetime history of work and how much I made each year; kind of like “This is Your Life” through a financial lens. A couple of very interesting data points jumped out at me… First, I made only $413 in the first year of my…
DetailsMy teenage son was NOT hungry. That should have been our first warning sign. He complained about an upset stomach and the usual remedies did not help. Within an hour he was doubled over in pain and we could not figure out why. My wife Carol asked him again, “Are you SURE you didn’t eat something strange…
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