Difficult Decembers

Difficult Decembers

Months bring their moods. They arrive in a hurry and depart even faster. But they bring tradition, memories, stories, experiences.  December always does.  In my younger years, the twelfth month brought her weather and her holidays. Christmas easily became my...
Twelve

Twelve

Today is 12/12.  Actually 12/12/24.  “Things We’ve Handed Down: Twelve Letters I Leave for You” is my 12th book. It has 12 chapters. Some people have purchased 12 copies to give away to others.  So, I guess 12 is an important number. At least for this...
Difficult Decembers

December Drove This Way Again

Every year she arrives. Driving in a hurry, rushing at a speed faster than the previous year’s pace, she is here.  After December drives this way, she doesn’t slow down. The hurry continues.  I’m looking now at my schedule. The plans, the events, the...
Chapter Three: “The Wounded Healer”

Chapter Three: “The Wounded Healer”

Chapter three in Things We’ve Handed Down is, like each chapter in the book, a letter. And it is, like each chapter, based on a book which impacted my life. And this chapter, like chapter two, is about wounds. We know about wounds. We have all experienced wounds. We...
Chapter Two: “Wounds Are Where Light Enters”

Peculiar Treasures

Do you use either of these two words? Peculiar? Treasures? Do you ever use them together: peculiar treasures?  I rarely say, or write, peculiar. I rarely state, or type, treasures. I rarely mention, or journal, peculiar treasures.  But in my book Things...
Twelve

One Title

My latest book, Things We’ve Handed Down: Letters I Leave for You, is about books. What I have read through the years that impacted my life in positive ways. What I want others to read as I process lessons learned and applied from those books.  Each of the twelve...
Questions

Questions

Are you anxious? If so, about what? Are you afraid? If so, why? What are your biggest fears? How do you respond when you feel those fears?  How do past hurts influence your present decisions?  What can you do to work through those hurts in healthy...
What’s It About?

What’s It About?

I’ve been asked this question about my new book: “What’s it about?” I usually give the official answer and say, “This is my twelfth book and it’s about twelve books which have impacted my life. I wrote about key life lessons I learned from those books.”  But my...