Tag: life

  • Today is my birthday, and because of that birthday, for the first time in almost a half-century I am now unemployed. Sleepless last night, I pondered this new reality. My mind gravitated to an idea about which I have often…

  • Shakespeare’s words, “The world is a stage…” could easily be, “The world is a university, and everyone you know is a teacher.” Life is a thing we experience as a student and everyone we meet during that experience is a…

  • One of the things I’ve enjoyed the most about being an airline pilot is the variety of people I have had the pleasure of sitting next to for hours on end. Around the dinner table in our home the family…

  • It is a matter of fact that when you were born you were dealt a metaphorical hand of cards. These “cards” include things like, health, setting, parents, innate abilities, attractiveness, personality and so on. We tend to get a mix…