When I drive to work in the morning I cross the Hudson River. The river is not as wide this far north as it is where it empties into the...

Whenever I see something written in chalk on a sidewalk I like to stop and check it out. If it is a hopscotch layout I may take a few...

Today I sat in my backyard and listened to a baseball game on the radio. I was burning some brush from spring clean-up in my fire pit....

I took the winter cover of leaves off my garlic beds today. Every year I uncover the garlic around the first of April. I’m not sure if...

I recently had to scrape the frost off my windshield. I can’t say I was surprised and I don’t know if I was disappointed. It is March and...

When I was a teenager I listened to a lot of heavy metal music-Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, etc. I would listen to The Metal Zone with Dr....

I was sitting and looking out the window today and I saw two birds that really made me happy. The first was a Carolina Wren. He (or she)...

“Busyness as a Badge of Honor”. I have heard this used to describe the person who is always soooo busy. Every time you talk to them or...

I have been reading and hearing a lot about personal branding. You need to build your brand. You need to make sure the world knows who...

I recently heard some people talking about the "Hedonistic Treadmill". At first I was alarmed because the word Hedonistic kind of scares...

If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you...

Sometimes I think January is the loneliest month. The Holidays are over. The darkness still lingers in the morning. The cold really...

There is something to be said about eating a meal together as a family. I heard once that if kids eat a meal with their family they are...

When I was living in Boston 20 something years ago I used to go to the racetrack with a coworker. We would go to bet on the horses. One...

What if we set an intention and not a resolution? Would it be easier to keep? We have all heard about how hard it is to keep a New Year’s...

Let It Be is not only a song by The Beatles, I also see it in this text from the Tao Te Ching: The Master allows things to happen. She...

“Happiness Is An Inside Job.” I was made aware of this quote recently. Someone was telling me that this quote is on a poster at their...

On the east side of Cambridge NY there is a company that does bulk milk hauling. They have tanker trucks that run out of there to daily...

The first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere is marked by the winter solstice. This usually happens on or about December 21st every...

I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. It wasn’t because the thermometer was hovering just below 10 degrees. It wasn’t because I...