Category: Life Changing Events

A Letter to My Ten-Year-Younger Self

I wrote this seven years ago. It has never been truer than today. ________ When the enemy attacks and people you love are caught behind enemy lines, always go back and get them. No matter the degree of danger or the reason they are there. ________ A LETTER […]

The Worlds Deepest Pit

Sometimes we are given our greatest gifts by experiencing the worst events in our lives.

The Untold Story of Walt Bond’s Baseball and Life Journey

If you haven’t noticed, I am a numbers guy. And I love baseball. I love the history, the backstories, and the struggles to reach the majors. I love the game. And I really love stats. As a kid, I slept with the National League Green Book. That was […]

Free Fall

I don’t think that makes me weak. I think it makes me human.

When Circumstances Suddenly Change

When you’re winning, everything seems to go right.
When everything goes wrong, you fight.

Today is my Birthday, but it is not the Day I Became Alive

Although I would do anything to change the circumstances that made me a member, I would never renounce my membership.

Finding Belief Through Adversity: Insights from Ernie Johnson

A little more than a month ago life had finally kicked my ass.

A Letter to My Ten-Year-Younger Self

Every life has a “Before and After” line in it, where your life has been one thing up until you reach a specific event and it suddenly then becomes something totally different.
You are approaching your line today,

Bye, Bye …

As much as I don’t want it to be, we both understand that this may be your last Mother’s Day in your physical body.