THE CRUNCH

  Here is my first post.  I honestly don’t know what to write.   Who ever heard of someone writing in their blog that they don’t know what to write, and then write about that?  I’m sure I’m not the first, and I would be quite impressed with myself if I was.  Maybe it will be…

In this post, I will attempt to document my childhood memories as I recall them. Memories 1. The First Time I Saw The Ocean I am blessed to have the ability to have just hung up the phone after having a very warm call to my 89 year old Father. I decided to all my…

It always seems that when I see a car in front of me with the dedication of someone passed away, I have mixed feelings.  My first reaction. “oh that sucks”.  My second reaction is to get close enough to the bumper of the person in front of me so I can read the message clearly. …

I cant tell you how many times I have heard this statement “they will not die in vain”, especially on important dates such as memorial day.  Recently we celebrated memorial day and I hope that we as a country are really taking pause to think about what this date really means.  Personally, amongst all the…

This story is shared in honor of Captain Ellis Spear Middleton II and his daughter, Hart Asbury, whose memory keeps his story alive. I met her on a walking track. It was just another morning—people circling, getting their steps in, doing what we all try to do… stay healthy a little longer. She was walking…

Why is it so easy for me to know what we are going to say or do next?    It’s easy.   Because we are all alike.     Somewhere along the way I stumbled onto the seemingly elusive distinction that none of us are unique from each other much at all.  However there was a time in my…