The odds say that your overall vitality will begin to decline with every decade of your life and, at some point, fall off the edge of the table. For instance, strength, balance, and endurance can start to decline in the 50s and become more evident in the 60s and 70s. Muscle mass and strength naturally decrease...Read More
Sometime last year it dawned on me that I was turning 70 this year (probably when I turned 69). Like every decade number, it felt like a big one. A really big one. A game changing one. Like the kickoff of the last phase of my life. So I went into contemplation mode and asked...Read More
Sometime last year it dawned on me that I was turning 70 this year (probably when I turned 69). Like every decade number, it felt like a big one. A really big one. A game changing one. Like the kickoff of the last phase of my life. So I went into contemplation mode and asked...Read More
She held my hand for 10 seconds. Tops. But it had a significant impact on me. Last month I went in for a surgical procedure (one of many lately). I’m used to the drill. Get wheeled into the room, slide off the gurney onto the bed, anesthetic hooked up to the line in my hand,...Read More
My good friend and mentor, Charlie Kelley, passed away last week. I wrote about him in my last post knowing it was only a matter of days until he would move to his eternal home. And now, I no longer have a classic mentor…one who is one generation ahead of me, one who has seen...Read More
A few weeks ago, I received an unusual phone call from my dear friend and mentor, Charlie. Would I be willing to take over the mentoring of a young man he had befriended the past eight years? It was an extraordinary request, as I had never met the man. Blind date mentoring? An arranged friendship?...Read More
Luke had Obi-Wan, the Von Trapp kids had Sister Maria, Frodo had Gandalf and Harry Potter had Dumbledore. Who do you have? Who is your mentor? Who is walking with you through this season of change…this land between…this liminal space? Over the last month I’ve been thinking and writing about the lonely and confusing seasons...Read More
My sister was going through some old pictures recently and found one I had apparently sent her years ago. She texted me the photo and I laughed when I saw it. It was me in 1976, on stage with a boy band…er…male quartet …I travelled the country with. The longer I looked at the pic...Read More
“Some of us wander from place to place, and many others of us don’t. We have the Somewhere people, who are very much of a place and rooted there, and we have the Anywhere people, who have a faint sense of belonging wherever they are and if they ever had a place, they left it...Read More
I was so scared of him that when I recognized his footfall coming down the stairs toward my office, I would lock the door, pull the shade, turn out the lights and hide. Did I mention I was a grown, 25-year-old man? It was my first full-time employment which, in many ways, I enjoyed. I...Read More
