Several months ago Lance Gallup guest-wrote a great article here on tuning out mind clutter, in which he talked about reducing the negativity that creeps into your life from watching TV news shows and the like. Well, for the past couple of weeks I haven’t been able to follow his advice: as a retiree, my [...]
If you’d like to speak out on the economy, please feel free to do so in the comments section of this post. That’s what this post is for. I’d like to hear from folks outside the US as well as those inside the US.
Has the economy had a direct impact on you? Has your 401k [...]
While watching a House TV series marathon recently, one of the shows made me teary-eyed. It was an episode in which a homeless lady was diagnosed with a terminal disease. In doing the diagnosis, the doctors tracked down her history and discovered that she had been in an car accident a couple of years earlier, [...]
During my sabbatical, my head started clearing from all the day-to-day stuff I normally let run through it. In this clearing, I was reminded that there are so many things that fascinate me. And, realizing this led to my having a more grateful attitude, which is by far a more healthy state of mind than [...]
by Bruce Keener on September 3, 2008
in Personal
Sunday 7 September 2008 marks the 7th anniversary of the passing of my wife Vickie Lynn Keener. As has been my practice since 2002, the first anniversary, I am taking a week of sabbatical.
The first sabbatical was one I absolutely needed. I took it because it would not have been right for me to have [...]