Look to God and Live… Joyfully!

How many of you watched the Olympics the past two weeks? Raise your hands (just kidding). Don’t worry if you didn’t, for there were sufficient reasons to boycott and I assuaged my guilt by minimizing my viewing to mostly just the figure skating, and even then only bits of that.  One of the most beautiful…

Today’s blogpost comes right between two holidays: yesterday was Lincoln’s birthday and tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. I was trying to decide which day to focus on when it occurred to me that the two holidays actually work so perfectly together!  One of the saddest things I have witnessed during the past few years, and has…

I’ve been thinking about butterflies this week. I think just about everyone knows that I love these beautiful creatures and envy their ability to bring joy as they flit across their world during their short lives. I could sit and watch them forever.  The thing with butterflies, however, is that they didn’t start out as…

This past week I participated in an interesting conversation. A friend pointed out to me that studies show that the greatest inhibitor to successful aging was not diet or exercise or any other factor other than… aging. We had a good laugh about this! Then this friend pointed out another study, done by James F.…

Today someone I really admired passed away. I had never met them in person, but nonetheless they had a big impact on my life and my life outlook. I had spoken with them through DMs a few times, but never more than that. We were going to meet up, but then Covid came along and…