When you write your own stories, you get to tell the stories the way you want them to be told.
And, because this is my site, and my story, I’ll tell the story the way I would like it to be remembered. (But, because I always strive to be accurate and fair, I will tell the whole story… it’ll just be shared the way I want it told.)
Continue reading “The End(y) Was Just The Beginning”
Sometimes training for a marathon can be a drag. It’s challenging and often difficult to begin one’s day knowing that a long run is coming – an hour (often more) of strenuous exercise, out there on the streets alone, often hurting, sometimes painfully so. Marathon training is certainly not fun.
And yet, we go on day-after-day, year-after-year preparing for race-after-race, thinking, hoping , wondering, even decades removed from one’s prime, if this race, the next race, will be the best one ever. (“I wonder if I can set a P.R.?”)
Continue reading “Making Work Into Fun”
So much of life is a process. We work diligently to accomplish tasks, and once accomplish them, we set our minds to new tasks.
Ever forward. Never stopping. There is always a new challenge facing us – a new goal, something different that we need to achieve.
And achieve we must.
Continue reading “And So It Begins…”
A year ago, as I was running every single day for an entire calendar year, I thought it might be fun to also run every street in the town where I live – Wyckoff, New Jersey.
The only problem was I didn’t have an efficient or easy way to keep track of every single street and I figured this was something I would probably never do.
Continue reading “Run Wyckoff!”
As a school administrator for 27 years, I had the good fortune to see great teaching on a daily basis. I supervised and evaluated some of the best teachers who ever lived. There is something special about a great teacher… a person who can inspire children and bring out the best in them.
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One of my favorite quotes comes from T.S. Eliot. It reads, “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Continue reading “Too Far?”
I had the privilege of serving as the minister at Grace United Methodist Church in Wyckoff, NJ on Sunday, April 23, 2023.
The following is the sermon I delivered:
THE CHOSEN…
Have you ever looked at a common word and thought that it was spelled incorrectly? You see the word, you can read it but it just doesn’t seem…correct.
I remember being in high school, probably not paying much attention to the teacher, and noticing the word “exit.”
I simply didn’t look right.
But it was, of course.
Sometimes words, properly spelled, don’t look right.
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People ask me about retirement. What do you do now? Are you slowing down?
Slowing down?!
No way. I’m gearing up!
Continue reading “Slowing Down? No Way!”
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