Last week my son, Joel, posted on Facebook about it being the seventh anniversary of his successful bladder cancer surgery. In his post he reminisced about that profound event and its subsequent impact on all our lives. I actually commented on his post that there are events we all encounter […]

You’ve probably never heard of Coach Frosty Westerling, but for five decades he won football games in the shadow of his obscurity – Lots of games. Frosty is a member of a select fraternity: college coaches who have won at least 300 games. This elite group includes such legendary names […]

Dr. Alex Pattakos, affectionately nicknamed “Dr. Meaning,” is the founder of the Center for Meaning, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the author of the international best-selling book, Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Victor Frankl’s Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work (www.prisonerofourthoughts.com). In a blog he wrote in 2010 for the […]

This week’s Inspiration is another throwback to Inspirations from years past. I originally composed this on March 23, 2012.   This past week I had lunch with a friend who I consider to be one of my life mentors. As we dined, in response to my prompting, he shared with […]