What’s your Ikigai?
What’s your reason to get up in the morning? Years ago I was too busy to consider what my purpose was. I was running like a gerbil on a wheel. No wonder the joy was missing.
Love and Marriage
Studies are showing that commitment is vastly underrated. One from the US Department of Health and Human Services states that getting married and staying married reduces depression in both men and women.
Falling Onstage
Nothing endears you to an audience quite like that moment when things go horribly wrong. When a microphone quits. A…
Love According to Kids
Could you use a few good snickers? Not Snickers bars, but a few laughs? Kids were asked, “Why does love…
Three Word Smiles
Is it possible to make someone smile with three words? I think so. How about “Hot apple pie”? “Come for…
Remember What’s-His-Name?
I can’t tell you how excited I was the first time my granddaughter Eowyn called me Bumpa. Then I discovered…
Three Togethers
My wife is eight months older than I. No one believes this. You see the two of us together and…
The Politician’s Fruit
Recently I spoke at a leadership banquet for Canada’s National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa. Dinner was delayed that evening as…
Larry Norman, My Mother, and Me
Music was highly important to me when I was a teen. I ranked it slightly ahead of eating and some…