From The Whale's Belly

This week was my birthday. One year prior you’d have found me in Myrtle Beach celebrating my 40th with my spouse.  I was  oblivious and had no idea what was headed my way. Like a freight train barreling down the tracks, me a stalled car with no power to get out of its way.  A short month […]

Sometimes a song comes along and just encapsulates where you are and where you want to be. This song does just that for me.  It tells you everything about where I stand right now going into 2018. In fact it is my anthem for 2018. Have a listen. Have you ever gotten to the place […]

The Greatest Gift:  As the clock has now struck midnight and 2017 is packed up and put away, I wanted to take a moment and share the three greatest gifts I received this past Christmas season. Gift 1: The first gift was one of the first I received.  It was a hand-made scarf my son Caleb knitted […]

This year the holidays have taken on this entirely Jekyll and Hyde persona.  On the one hand I’m excited.  I’m a natural gift giver and love the season of trying to figure out the perfect gift for friends and family, especially my two boys.  But this year the season while still exciting, has also become something to just […]

Life is hard at times. Navigating through can be a real chore. Often there do not seem to be large sign posts telling you proceed this way or that. I’ve entered into a state recently where life is series of trudging forward, putting one step in front of the other but there’s a struggle to […]