Monthly Archives: August 2001

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. – William Saroyan I think it would be more accurate to say they’ve come to wisdom by learning from their failures. Or listening to what life’s trying to teach … Continue reading →

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present. – Thomas Merton A great quote. I fall into the trap of thinking that someday, I’ll have enough time for solitude. … Continue reading →

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. – Joanna Field These past ten years or so have definitely been a wobbly but ascending spiral. I want it to be true about the next ten … Continue reading →

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. … Continue reading →

Newsblog: I guess the Lord needed number 77 more than the Vikings needed him. – Red McComb I don’t believe it’s explainable. – Dennis Green Sometimes, things just happen for no reason. I mean, 79 of us got through that … Continue reading →

It’s been a memory-maker week with me and my 15 year-old daughter. She started taking driver’s ed classes on Monday so Thursday night, I took her to a large parking lot behind a vacant warehouse in town and let her … Continue reading →

Newsblog: Football mentality can push athletes too far My first inclination is to criticize this mentality. What happened to Korey Stringer couldn’t happen to me. Dumb coaches. Macho jocks. Stupid sport. But it’s there inside me, too. Yesterday I was … Continue reading →

Version 2.0 of the Real Joe Radio Show demo is up. There are numerous changes since we released V1.0 a week ago, but other than the addition of two callers, they’re all pretty small. There are several things I’d like … Continue reading →