So if you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m the Passionate type. The passion part carries equal weight with my being Emotionally Sensitive and Terrifically Intense. Ya. A Barrel of Laughs is what they call me. But, come on now, I can be fun, too. [Never said I was “cool.”] And I know how to have a good time. But I’m not for everyone—who is? Guess what peeps, when you get older, you also get to a place where you’re OK with this. [Well, some of us anyway]. I also endeavour to live the old-school vibe of “live &…. [ Read More ]

Like you, sometimes I bite the hand that feeds me. It’s not something I do intentionally or wilfully, but I do live in this world, and it is a hard fact of life that one is not always righteous or good or above reproach. Being human dictates that we all at one time or another will mess up. And luckily for us, we’re all sinners and nobody loves a sinner more than Jesus. What I mean is that if you “believe” then you know that “confessing” your sins—coming clean as it were—is a step in the righteous direction. Any addict…. [ Read More ]

ithinkyoushould. Read a self-help book or 2 just for kicks, and/or write your own. Self-help books are this century’s great “note to self,” a way of reminding you that whatever ails you is not uniquely “your problem” but was once a problem of many others just like you. I learned this the hard way. Which is the only way to learn things in my view so that what you eventually do learn makes an indelible, inevitable impression on your brain and you are unlikely to repeat the injury time after time. I was first introduced to my first self-help book…. [ Read More ]