Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, the second deepest in North America, after Great Slave Lake in Canada. I’d love to visit it one day.
Archives for 2012
The Rug Weaver — Mojave, 1904
Piñon nuts, prickly pear cactus, she gathers juniper berries …
Minute to Freedom #55: Being Spontaneous
Today let’s talk about being spontaneous. Has it ever seemed like it was difficult to just let go and do something on the spur of the moment?
You’re Too Young To Be Here: Beautiful Friends
Author Greg Martin shares his experience of facing the challenges of prostate cancer and gratitude for the many friends who stepped-up to provide support.
Happily Ever After
I would like to put forward the proposition that every mother omit fairy-tales from their daughters’ reading list. Why? Because many girls develop a Cinderella Syndrome which they carry into adult life. They wait for Prince Charming or a knight in shining armour to come along to save them from their woes so they can […]
Every Word
“Every word was a lie” is what I wrote one day, but then again, how would I know? I believed it even when I knew it wasn’t true because that’s what you do when she’s young and time is running out …
Positive Training – Beyond The Dogs
Let’s say you have a killer whale in your backyard. You would need a big tank for sure. Actually, you would probably need more than one. After all, how are you going to clean the tank with a killer whale in it? Ok, so you have your two big tanks and your pet killer whale and it’s time to clean one of his tanks. How are you going to get a 9 ton sea mammal out of one tank and into another? If this sounds like a ridiculous problem, it’s not. Zoos and marine animal parks deal with problems like this every day.
The Single Father’s Guide to Life, Cooking and Baseball
A year or two after I became a single father, I started to get calls from women to whom I affectionately refer as “Platonic Female Friends (PFF’s).” Although the callers were unrelated as far as I knew, the topic of the conversations were strangely similar.
Minute to Freedom #54: Keep It Simple
Today let’s talk about keeping it simple. Has it ever seemed like your world is terribly complicated? That you just go from one crisis to the next?
Let’s Hear it For the Rag Bag
The other day I read in a syndicated advice column that a person should not give used clothing to Goodwill or some similar resale charity, unless its general quality were something she herself would wear. Actually, that’s not particularly good advice.
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