525,600 minutes...So... It's finally 2022... If you're a computer software engineer (programmer), you're used to doing "time math," things like seconds in a minute are learned at a young age…
Wow! Where to start... It's been so long since I've written anything, and nothing I write can do justice... The beginning of the year marked the beginning of a pandemic…
This is a poem written by a friend and college roommate of mine, Jerry, on September 12, 2001. Gray Cloud There's a gray cloud over my house Like the smoke…
So... Here we are twenty-five years since I said goodbye for the last time to my mom. Wow, that's hard to believe - a quarter century, and just under one…
It's been twenty-four years since I said goodbye for the last time to my dad. Wow, that's hard to believe - almost a quarter of a century, and just under…
In his book, Dear Mr. Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood?: Letters to Mr. Rogers, published in 1996, Fred Rogers included this letter: One girl and her family wrote…
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental illness. One in five Americans are affected by mental health conditions and the stigma associated with mental…
People have different reactions when tough times come - the advice of this grandmother is priceless: A young woman went to her grandmother and told her about her life and…
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King On January 18th, we celebrated Martin…