What makes a person brave? Let me rephrase that. What motivates a person to be brave about their personal life-struggles? I’ve met a number of people in my life that I would consider brave. When I think of these people, I think more so of people that have faced specific challenges in their lives and…

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Having arrived in my 50s, I’ve found myself a little more selective with how and who I share my time. As I get older, I tend to filter out the nonsense, or at least the noise in my life. A big part of that is filtering my choice of “who” will use up the minutes…

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Do you have the right to give advice about a topic if you’re not a guru in that field? This is something that I think about most every time I begin writing a new post. If you don’t know me, then maybe you would consider the fact that I am a master of the field…

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Laying in bed, my wife asleep at my side, my Kindle Fire Tablet giving off an eerie glow, casting off flickers of light on my face as I innocently flip through articles on my RSS reader. Then it happens. I stumble upon an article about Amazon deals of the day. The small, random grid of…

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“Hello, my name is Rusty.” Hi Rusty. “I’m a FIXER. My DNA has made me this way. I’ve been working on this (fixing myself) for years now and have been quasi-sober for about 13 hours…” I’m not sure what the draw is, the drive that pushes me to instinctively try to fix everything. I’m not…

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I’ve been married for a few years (okay, over 27!). With that, we have six children, with each one of them married and doing pretty good in their own regard. Statistically speaking, you would think that one of them would be way off the tracks — I mean far enough off that they would need a boat…

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