“If you won that lottery jackpot, what would you do with the money?” My mom and I had just crossed the border from our non-lottery state into one that sells tickets and has a billboard with the current jackpot just across the state line. It was a dollar figure that had a couple…
I have always loved music. Not so much producing my own, but listening to music that others have made. I took piano lessons as a child and I was a bad student. I wouldn’t practice. I had one teacher who was this petite, feisty little lady and I was honestly a little scared of…
I am not a morning person. At all. But, in some seasons, I will get up early in the morning to run with my friends before work. It is the best time to exercise, honestly, compared to after work when I’m tired/there are other things competing with my time/I just want to go home.…
A few years ago, I read the obituary of someone I knew. I had only known him for a few years, so I was interested to find out his life story. He had been an accomplished businessman, and I never knew this. I was upset that I hadn’t learned that while he was…
It’s been a rough year so far. Just tonight, I got a message that someone I know passed away today. This makes the 4th for this year. I’m ready for that trend to stop. But, something else I’ve experienced this year is the near miss. When I was in college, I remember…
He looked like Willie Nelson, scruffy with sad eyes. He was sitting at the gate in an airport wheelchair. We had a small-talk conversation about the delayed flight and where he was headed. He had been in town to see his doctors at the VA and was headed “home”, which is now a room in…
I was on a plane recently. I am one of the few people who actually enjoys air travel. Not the delays or glitches that disrupt an itinerary, but the flight itself. When the plane pulls away from the gate, and slowly lumbers down the taxiway. We get to the end of it, and make that…