What will you experience for the first time? this coming year? One of the things I love to do is travel in order to experience new places, cultures, sights and things. This past year I have had a number of travel firsts as I visited Mt. Rushmore, hiked the Badlands of South Dakota and toured […]
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I just received the note that is pictured above from someone that I met for the first-time last week. She was not of my age, gender, skin color, or religion. We shared a moment in time at a meeting that we happened to attend together. It was my first meeting as a new member of
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I spent a VERY cold night on the streets of Center City Philadelphia in December 2020, at the end of my Leap Year of Firsts, with the homeless. On December 5th, for the first time in my life, I laid on cold wet frozen ground in a torn sleeping bag with a tattered rolled up
Another FIRST – My first Audio Book release! The picture above showed up in my Facebook feed this past week to remind me of my first from last December – the publishing of my first book – A Leap Year of Firsts! The picture was taken at my publisher’s Book Baby’s manufacturing facility as my
How time flies – How did a FIRST from the past year influence you? Read More »
I continue to look for opportunities for firsts, just not pressured to do one every day. Although I do have a new daily commitment, that I am NOT writing about. I look to do one act of kindness each day. For my blog today I thought I’d update you on some of my continued firsts…
Continuing to look for opportunities for FIRSTS… just not every day. Read More »
Today is a day we take stock of what we are thankful for. First and foremost, I’m thankful to be “above ground” and alive. I have my health. Having lived on the streets of Philly on a cold winter night for the first time in my life with the homeless in 2020, I’m thankful to
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Two years have passed since I entered the following passage in my daily journal on November 17, 2020. This was one of my published firsts in my book A Leap Year of Firsts. In reflecting back, I thought it still held up, especially in the challenging times we are living in, So I wanted to
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“Have you ever felt stuck in life? Without hope? Lost? Depressed? I was there on Friday – March 20th, 2020 @ 2:30. I was about to layoff an employee for the FIRST time in my life. Not just one, but all 45 of them. It felt like death. I had put 45 years of my
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I was recently given my first unfinished manuscript to read from a potential first-time author, who happens to be an inmate in prison. The last chapter remains unwritten. This inmate possesses the same first name as I. The author was dealt an awful, horrible, and unthinkable hand at birth. Maybe one that he may never
Hurt people hurt people. Hope & a Prayer March 18th, 2023@ 8:30! Read More »
“Do it while you are able.” I was reminded of these words of wisdom spoken to me by my seventy-year-old father over fifteen years ago, as I was on my way to the hospital this week to visit my mom who had fallen. My father was suffering through lung cancer that had been diagnosed. He
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