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Month: September 2018
My wife, Teresa, had a glorious “welcome” to her 50s last week as she was blessed with the joy of her first colonoscopy. I sat in the waiting room with eight other people as she had her procedure. When a nurse walked in and said, “John?” two of us stood up. As I stepped towards the nurse she asked me who I was there for and I said, “Teresa.” She said, “Yep, she’s ready. Isn’t it funny there were two Johns in the waiting room?”
When I got to the recovery room and saw the lady in recovery, it was immediately clear this was not my wife.
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From regret to redemption
Michael Phelps swam in the 2000 Summer Olympics at the age of 15; making him the youngest male to make an Olympic swim team in 68 years. After swimming in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, he held the record for winning the most Olympic medals ever with a total of 22 medals, 18 of them gold! Phelps was, clearly, the greatest swimmer of all-time.
After the 2012 Olympic Games, during an interview on the Today show, Phelps announced he was retiring; stating “I’m done. I’m ready to move on.”
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Starting Over
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Fall blessings
Growing up in North Dakota, I took for granted living in a part of the world where we truly can experience all four seasons. I didn’t realize how much I would miss the seasons and the changes associated with them until my wife and I lived five years in Kansas City. There we certainly had summer, but there was not a winter. And without winter you cannot have a spring. But what I truly missed was my favorite season: fall.
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Starting Over
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Starting over
Karl Pillemer is a gerontologist at Cornell University. In 2011, he and his team interviewed 1,500 adults over the age of 65, asking them what haunts them the most about their life choices. He then wrote a book called “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.”
Here are the biggest regrets of those interviewed…
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Why Humpty Dumpty? Part II
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty back together again.”
What was Humpty Dumpty pursuing that led him to scale a dangerous wall? Was he in avid pursuit of popularity? Money and possessions? His dream position? Pleasure?
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