I read a blog today of a lady’s unexpected health problem and the fear she is now experiencing. I understand completely her fears, not knowing the answer is the most difficult part. One can deal with a diagnosis, good or bad, we can move on, make plans and get busy living […]
Life
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We are born and lessons we must learn; to be possessed by our possessions only later to be burned, and adorn our homes and lives with accessories we think we yearn. We run the race of affluency and gather in loud circles nodding agreeably and knowing we are not heard. […]
I visited with my sister this weekend and we spoke about my trilogy. She has a masters degree in creative writing. She has tried to read my trilogy but states all the other authors and editors do not write the way I write. That you must hook people quickly into […]
A few days ago I blogged about the role of faith in an epic high fantasy story. Now, if I mentioned faith and sacrifice in the same sentence would you automatically think, “Oh no, here comes a Jesus Christ reference!” Think for a moment of a soldier. A soldier is […]
If I could wish anything for my family and friends, and even strangers – is to live a life of passion. It has been said that doing what you like is what will provide the most happiness in life. For most of our lives we are working. Yet most go […]
Tragedies can change a person. Sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst. This May I heard more tornado sirens being sounded that at any other time in my life. I live in Norman, OK just nine miles from Moore and seventeen miles from Oklahoma City. There were horrible […]
May 22, 2013 – I live in Norman, Oklahoma. As you may have read, our neighbors nine miles to the north were just hit with a devastating tornado. I am speaking of the May 20, 2013 tornado in Moore, OK. This tornado had winds higher than 200 miles per hour […]
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —Mark Twain My wife posted this quote today on her Facebook […]
As a man the age of 53, I still hope to have another 25-30 years of life ahead of me. Much of what determines my age of death is in my genetics. My grandparents averaged around the age of 84. That gives me about 31 more years. However, anything can […]
Many families do not have the opportunity to take just one photo of a series of generations within a family. The above photo is of my family’s four male generations, beginning with the patriarch all the way to the newest member of the line of Greenlee’s – Brogan. What a […]