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What I’ve learned so far
I remember sitting in my pickup on an oil well location just east of Tatum, NM, watching an experienced pulling unit crew run 6,000’ of 2-7/8” tubing into a wellbore. It was an amazing thing to watch. At first glance the job was pretty boring, the same thing over and over: grab a joint […]
I’ve been attending a Fitness Boot Camp for the past few weeks: one hour a day, three days a week, outside in the weather, on the grass in a local park. I’m doing this with twelve guys from my church; we all needed to work out more and a crash-course in fitness seemed appropriate; and […]
I remembered a story from when my daughter, Katie, was only ten years old. We were hanging around the house one afternoon listening to an oldies radio station while doing chores and waiting for Cyndi to come home from whatever exercise class she was teaching at the time. Katie asked, “Daddy, what’s your favorite song?”
I […]
January is my time for reevaluation and fresh starts, so I spend a lot of energy throwing old things over the side – things like tired ideas and ineffective habits and out-dated clothes and stale commitments. I can’t learn new things or take on new projects until I open some room in my life, so […]
Cyndi and I were in our favorite booth-in-the-back-corner at Rosa’s, enjoying our last plate of tacos for 2007, when she suggested: “You should stop telling people that you are trying to age gracefully. I know what you mean when you say it, but it doesn’t reflect the hope that’s in your heart. It sounds like […]