Smartphones are amazing devices. Computers used to occupy entire buildings and rooms and we now hold one in the palm of our hands, with extraordinary capabilities. Our phones connect us to an online world of entertainment, vasts amounts of knowledge and information at our fingertips, social media, communication, games, they can take photos, and oh …
I’m confident that deep down most people desire happiness. And no, I do not mean pleasure. Everyone seeks pleasure. It is natural and inherent to our physical bodies; but pleasure is fleeting and temporary. True joy, true happiness, is lasting. It doesn’t depend solely on circumstance. Even when we struggle and experience “down” moments we …
One beautiful clear morning in early summer, I found myself pacing dirt trails within the Garden of the Gods in Colorado. A work trip had brought me to the area. Though my endurance was nowhere near where it had been in the past, I connected with this terrain. It energized me and I felt as …
My hands felt near frozen. This was crazy. “Just go inside now,” I thought. No. I needed to make one more shot and then I could go in. Only three shots made in a row could produce the psychological, ethereal key that would unlock my own mental door allowing me to physically go back inside …
Where to begin? I have always considered myself an active and athletic person. However, with more years under my belt and time to reflect on it, for the first thirty years of my life I realize that “active” does not necessarily equate to “healthy.” The idea of a “healthy” lifestyle was hardly a consideration in …
Somewhere, burning beneath an unforgiving desert sun, one can find a simple remote neighborhood out in the middle of nowhere. In the corner of one backyard stands a seemingly ordinary fence. It barriers the other bordering yards as it should. And to anyone else, to the current owners, there is likely little or no thought …
“Aaargh! Man, why is this so hard!?” I argued at the TV screen after another death. This particular video game proved extraordinarily difficult, brutally difficult, in fact. It tested every nerd honed skill within me, that I had developed over three decades of dedicated and practiced gaming, to the maximum. But I was just as …