Suggestions for the Holidaze

Sober Holidays? You don’t jump into a pool of piranhas if you’re bleeding. And there you have it.  How to get through the holidays.  Your birthdays, the Tuesdays, the paydays, all the other days and especially days when you’re visiting an aquarium because no one wants...

Life Lessons from the Kitchen

This is real world.  Grab hold and fight back or you’re gonna get ran over. Let me tell you about my first big boy job that began my food service industry journey.   Now outside of that concession stand at the neighborhood pool and several locally famous lifeguard...
Make the Mac & Cheese

Make the Mac & Cheese

I’m here today to talk to you about your debt. No, I’m not suddenly into finance. Spiritual debt. Hear me out. Or read me out, or whatever that equivalent is. I am a two-time national award winning author, you know. You might want to screen shot this and have me sign...

Who Hypes the Hype Man? A look at perspective.

Was havin’ one of those days, man. Was at work and I just couldn’t get caught up.  With each task deemed almost complete, another issue would arise from a what-was -believed-to-be extinguished fire, another endless voice would ask for something and the timeless...

GRATITUDE

Sometimes you might only have the breath in your lungs.  But as long as you have that, you have something to be grateful for. “Gratitude” is lip sneer inducing for many.  It can be a condescending idea at times.  “Be thankful” . . .”be appreciative”. . . “don’t take...