I guess I am a slow learner or things just come to me later in life. If you asked a dozen successful people what the secret to their success is, you would get a dozen different answers. The one common thread would be not what they think but how they think. There is an old saying that goes like this "it is easier said then done". I know I am ( Read more... )

We have come to live in a rapidly changing world. Many of the things we were taught and the values we learned just don't seem to apply these days. I disagree with that for the most part because some of the most important lessons seem to have been forgotten ( Read more... )

Life is such a fine line. There can be such gray areas. You can choose to live it one way or another but to truely have a good life you have to walk a tightrope. One of those tightropes is the expectations we put on ourselves and the expectations of others that are placed upon us ( Read more... )

As another year comes to a close I reflect back on the years past and anticpate the new year with, in many cases, the same hopes and dreams. Many years have passed and I tend to forget my advancing age. I am not old by any means but I am no longer a 20 or 30 year old anymore ( Read more... )

I can remember when I was a child I would dream of what it would be like when I was grown up. I remember thinking of having a house and maybe a car. Things were simple back then ( Read more... )

Its always amazing to me how we play games. I am not talking monopoly or card but the game of living. It always amazes me what we will say and do when it would be so much simpler to just tell the truth ( Read more... )

Do you ever stop and wonder when it was that your life veered off that chosen track that you had so carefully laid out as a child ( Read more... )

To those of you who know me this is pretty much a retorhical question. I could go thru a whole list of reasons why and still might. Its not like I have never asked myself this question before but I was sitting and weeping while watching one of those silly romantic comedies that Hollywood is so good at and the question just really hit home ( Read more... )

Well another birthday has come and gone and I sit here and reflect back on the past 45 years. Its been filled with triumphs like seeing my daughter born and married and the birth of my two wonderful granddaughters. It has had its tragedies as well with the failure of my marriage some long ago and the passing of my father just a few short years ago ( Read more... )

I was suprised that it had been 6 weeks since I last posted to my journal. I have never been a consistant poster but its good to have to just unload your mind. I am never quite sure I do that but I still try ( Read more... )