Bitter or Better? Choose Your Response to Hard Times

5 years ago

I am becoming good friends with a seventy-four year old woman I have never met. I connected with Susan Rau…

5 Ideas for Navigating Troubled Times

5 years ago

It was a heartbreaking conversation. A few days ago, my wife and I helped our son and his fiancé make…

The Beautiful or the Ugly? Choose Your Focus for a Happier Life

5 years ago

Take a look at this picture: That’s the view from just outside the door of our apartment in Sacramento, CA.…

How to Declutter and Downsize Your Home (and Your Life)

5 years ago

I was surprised. In my last post (you can read that here), I shared some creative methods I used to…

Creative Change: How to Carve Out the Life You Want

5 years ago

When the last of our kids finished college a few years ago, my wife Lisa and I brainstormed about the…

How to Have Healthy Relationships (part 3): Yourself

5 years ago

Let’s start with an exercise - open your phone camera and flip the image so you can see yourself. Got…

How to Have Healthy Relationships (part 2): Expectations

5 years ago

I recently had some dating friends ask me what the “secret” was to my twenty-seven year marriage with my wife…

How to Have Healthy Relationships (part 1): Intentionality

5 years ago

It all started with a recent trip to visit my parents in Michigan. With them being in their late seventies…

Vive la Différence: Supercharge Your Personal Growth by Widening Your Circle of Friends

5 years ago

It started with my wife Lisa and I heading out for a walk. In the lobby of our apartment building,…

How to Connect With God: My Daily Practice

5 years ago

In last week’s post How to Find Direction in Life’s Fog, I wrote that, during confusing times in my life,…