Being more than you think you are

Always exceed expectations

Do you read many blogs?  I read quite a few.  Some are more special than others are, no doubt.  Some blogs touch you in a place that others don't even come close to.  Know what I mean?  One person who almost always is able to reach me with just the right message is Steve Olson.  I don't know for sure what it is about Steve that imparts meaning to me, but in many ways I find that he and I share some similarities in our lives, and that probably makes his writing meaningful to me. In his most recent article, "Are you an extraordinary person?" Steve writes about his upbringing and how so many external influences pushed the message that … [Read more...]

I’ve been absent!

Natural-mosquito3

Hi everybody.  I hope there are still a few people following my personal site!  I've been absent from this site for a bit now.  Unfortunately, back at the beginning of September I got ill, and was quite sick for quite a while! I got a case of Dengue Fever.  Dengue is a tropical disease that is caused by mosquito bites.  Dengue is deadly in about 5% of those who contract the disease.  I was lucky, though, I lived through it!  Actually, it can take up to about 6 months to fully recover from a case of dengue fever, although after a month or 6 weeks, the worst affects of the disease have generally passed.  So, while I am not 100% … [Read more...]