by Average Joe | Nov 24, 2016 | Family Matters, Peace Secrets
Happy ThanksReceiving Day! Say What? Sometimes I need to hear things backwards to fully grasp the meaning of words and phrases. While sitting at a ‘four-way stop’, where the traffic was ridiculously long, I complained how dumb it is to make every car...
by Average Joe | Oct 14, 2016 | Family Matters, Peace Secrets, Work Stress
Twenty-six hours of meeting time from pickup from our clients corporate jet to drop off. This is our one and only chance to introduce them to sixty different people and cover twenty-five different topics. Every word and moment during lunch, dinner, before and after...
by Average Joe | Jul 9, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters
Do you care? What are you going to do about it? The words rang in my ears as a young black woman shouted at my son and me and a friend as we were leaving a baseball game and passing through a small but loud and raucous black lives matter protest in Greensboro, NC...
by Average Joe | May 30, 2016 | Family Matters, Peace Secrets
My Father pictured here in this 1942 Navy photo did not talk much about his days in WWII. We know he was a flag man (aka Landing Signal Officer) on an ocean carrier and helped land planes. Normally I don’t think much about what it must have been like for him...
by Average Joe | May 17, 2016 | Family Matters, Peace Secrets
Thirty years ago today my bride and I made vows to live for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, to stay together forever. Last night I got the urge to write just how we made it 30 years. I wanted to search Google for what others have done to have it...
by Average Joe | May 15, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters, Peace Secrets
Standalone Ready!What a great joy to see your son or daughter cross into the threshold of adulthood on high school graduation day. Yet at the same time inside your gut, it is welling up with fear and anxiety as they head off into the vast uncertain universe. ...
