(Edited from my post on the Surrendering the Secret Blog) Today is 4th of July. Freedom Day. A day that our country has set aside for giving thanks for our natural Freedom. A day to acknowledge and honor those who sacrificed to make that freedom a reality. That is easy…

I am surrounded by CHANGE PAIN. This past week has made me DROOP with discussions about CHANGE. New Paradigms..blah, blah, blah….. New ways of thinking..blah, blah, blah….. The OLD is gone the NEW has come…blah, blah, blah…… One discussion involved my Bible study group, a group of WAY YOUNG CUTIES…

One Half of 2011 has officially come to an end. These months have blown by in a wisp of wild and wonderful living that sometimes feel and look (in my mirror) like time travel on steroids. So far this year I have been to Alaska; Denver; New Mexico; Alabama; Ohio;…

All day I have been trying to figure out how to get the overflow of my heart into some articulate order, through the keys of my laptop and onto the screen of my blog, but nothing came. Just thoughts. Just thanksgiving. Just a constant re-play of this past weekend. After…

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: ‘When not interfered with by outside…

Oh, oh, oh. The heat has hit in a big way. Here in my home turf of Tampa, we not only watch heat vapors swirling up off the pavement but sometimes we see it blast from our behaviour. That was the story of my life last week. I see myself…