Put on your recording of John Mellencamp’s “Ain’t that America” and read on. The story behind this picture is that Sandy Gillis, my son’s wife’s mother, was buried yesterday in one of the most unusual funerals I have ever attended. It was solemn and appropriately spiritual, but it was unique. Sandy was a biker chick [...]
Over the weekend, I went to Carole’s house in Lula to spend the Fourth of July with my sons and their families. On Saturday they worked pretty hard in trying to get things cleaned out at Carole’s house and then late in the afternoon Mike and Connor went for a ride on Jeff’s Artic Cat. [...]
Even back about 20 years ago we were talking about self talk. Self talk is that internal dialogue you have perhaps subvocally with yourself throughout the day. Sometimes the voice in your head can be condemning. Often it’s very critical. Unfortunately it’s often very critical of yourself. And when your self talk is sufficiently critical [...]