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Introducing the Young YOU!
Last week, I had the privilege of cleaning out my mother’s home of forty-five years. The happy news is that she is still super healthy and living in Melbourne, Forida, equidistant between my two brothers. Her home in Ft. Lauderdale (the one I was emptying) was...
Mollie
I’m sure many of you, like me, were devastated to hear news of Mollie Tibbet’s body being discovered in a rural corn field. Mollie was a beautiful, vibrant young woman who should have been starting her sophomore year of college this fall. Her life took a tragic turn...
The Sound of Silence, Part 2
You really didn’t think that rant could be confined to a single post, did you? I offer one more observation where public air space is concerned. During our spring break vacation, there was a family in our condo who could be identified by the volume of the kids’...
The Sound of Silence, Part 1
The other day, I was in a medical office waiting room. On my left was a woman older than me with a cell phone featuring an old-fashioned ring (you know the one: DING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING-A-LING…) Apparently, the woman has many more friends than I do, because her...
Faulty Preconceptions
We were asked an interesting question in one of my Seminary classes this week: “What biases or presuppositions do you bring into any encounter with others? How can we learn from others without interjecting our own interpretations into the process?” I readily admitted...
From 200 Pounds Lost to a Life System: How to Transform Health, Mindset & Life
In this powerful Part 2 interview of Lessons From Living, Stanley Bronstein shares the 20-trait system of excellence he developed after losing 200 pounds and...
Growing Through Grief
Author Emily Thiroux Threatt intimately knows the subject she shares, having lost two husbands, and many other family members besides. But you don't have to have suffered a loss by death to have suffered loss, as Emily explains: we have all experienced loss in our...
Divine Intervention
Author Marni Foderaro discusses how God intervenes in one's life--as a woman who was raised as an atheist, but came to belief in God as a young child, from simply witnessing God's hand in her own life. Today, she believes there are no coincidences, but only...
Relational Realities
Having experienced significant trauma as a young person, Mr. Jay The Relationship Coach knows how to deal with adversity and triumph. He also recognizes the dangers a damaged psyche can pose in any relationship, and how a relationship can grow and be successful,...
Wrangling W.A.F.F.L.E.S. (and Finding Peace)
As a professor of mathematics, Katie Nall recognized that some of her students were incapable of being successful, simply because of the anxiety they associated with the subject. This began a journey that found Katie exploring and investigating different methods of...
Radical Recovery
From a young age, Jay Shifman's mental health issues were addressed medically, setting him up for a spiral into addiction, multiple suicide attempts and overdose. But the story doesn't end there. Jay courageously advocated for his own recovery, and lived to tell the...
Gift of Love
Inspired by her niece's compassionate response to children living with cancer, Sheila Duncan brought to life an imperfect, playful dog character named "Trouble." Today, Trouble is the star of three children's books, as well as a plush toy which has made its way into...












