Category: Life Lessons

The BIG takeaway from my karaoke lessons, and the approximately forty-four hours of dance lessons, is simply this: what do you have to lose?  Stepping out of your comfort zone is all about expanding your horizon.  Sometimes you’ve just got to go for it. My dance partner Barbara and I have completed three-quarters of the …

If you’re reading this on Wednesday, my heart catheterization went smoothly yesterday. It was a follow-up to the one I had last April. I’ve had some lightheadedness and heavy legs lately, so my cardiologist thought it was wise to take another look. Sounds pretty dramatic, doesn’t it? In any case, I’m going to be busy …

I have a few friends who refer to their closest companions as belonging to a tribe. It sounded odd the first time I heard it, but over time I’ve come to understand its meaning and significance. According to Google, “Historically, tribes were the earliest form of organized human society. People lived, worked, hunted, celebrated, and …

I posted the following several years ago shortly after my friend, Jim, died.  The idea that our time on earth is limited was in the forefront of my thoughts. Time is a funny thing.  When we’re young time passes very slowly.  Our next birthday and Christmas seem like they’ll never come. Summer vacations are about …

When I was a kid, I heard about a section in the Bible called the begats.  It was supposed to be about birth order.  So and so begat so and so. When I googled the begats, I found that they’re genealogies that “trace who came from whom”.  They appear in “Genesis, Chronicles, and the Gospels, …

I’ve written a ton of stories for my blog.  I’ve written more than I thought I’d write starting out, but I really didn’t have a plan in the beginning, so perhaps I’m right on track.  I promised to tell the truth as I remember it, and I’ve followed that pledge. I’m a what you see …

This is the story you were supposed to see.  Ruth’s been editing again. If you’ve been reading my blog over the past several weeks, you know that I’ve been taking dance lessons. It’s been harder than I thought it would be. Barbara and I have completed three classes, dropped out of one and started three …

I took my Marriage Rules and AI’s advice, put them in a pot, shook them together and asked AI to summarize our joint observations.  When the words came out, I had the UMRF.  I think it’s pretty good.                                   …

The artificial intelligent site I checked out provided the following observations regarding marriage.  They’re matter of fact, built on statistics rather than personal observations.  That doesn’t make them bad, just different. The ones I developed for David, Elizabeth and Michael were “before” marriage guidelines.  AI’s are more encompassing. Align on Core Values Shared beliefs about …

Almost thirty years ago I developed The Marriage Rules for David, Elizabeth and Michael.  The boys had brought home their current girlfriends during the college Christmas break. Michael was a freshman at Michigan State and David was a junior at Spring Arbor. I wrote the following blog about the development of the marriage rules and …