Julian–Graduation Changes Everything?

You made it, Julian! You graduated from high school and have the diploma to prove it. And now, you can put away your textbooks, oops, Chromebook and get on with your real life. Graduation is a wonderful accomplishment and exciting, but comes along with a lot of changes. (Thanks. Grandpa, for that insightful, but oh, […]Read Post ›

Of Dinosaurs and Baptism

We visited our grandkids in Texas in February and found out that they are really into dinosaurs. Just about every picture they drew and a good number of books they read had at least one dinosaur. I learned to pronounce so many different names including Oviraptors, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, Protoceratops and Parasaurolopus. I read and was told how […]Read Post ›

Selective Abstraction

I was scanning through an old book of mine The Lies We Believe by Dr. Chris Thurman, when my thoughts settled in at one section. The chapter is titled Distortion Lies. It describes how we can distort those things around us in an effort to maintain our own reality. In common terms–we cannot see the forest for all the trees. I think I […]Read Post ›

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

“Think of all that we’ve been through and breaking up is hard to do.” Neil Sedaka released this song in 1962. This is not the most insightful song about ending relationships. It does not go into the various factors that are barriers to relationships. There is nothing about the efforts made to prevent a breakup. […]Read Post ›