Blind Eyes Wide Open

Blind Eyes Wide Open

Attention Blindness. We experience it everyday of our lives, virtually all the time. But because we are blind to what we are blind to, we are not aware that it is happening. Daniel Simons calls it the most effective cloaking device known to man- the mind. In his...
The Big Bang

The Big Bang

On the table sat a plastic box that I bought a little over 20 years ago. It was scraped and scratched from all the years of being moved. The lid was dusty and the sides were a little dirty. We had placed it under the stairs when we moved into the house seven years...
Potential

Potential

You will never achieve your greatest potential on your own. -Anonymous I am awe inspired by people who make  it against whatever life has thrown at them. They rise up from the ashes of a tragedy; persevering to overcome difficulties that we view as unimaginable....
CALL of DUTY

CALL of DUTY

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “Call of Duty”? Honor? Sacrifice? X-Box? For all of us it brings up something different based on our life experiences or that of a loved one. I think of my Grandpa Jack who was held by Germans as a prisoner of...
The Power of Two

The Power of Two

It was in a social studies class my junior year in high school that I worked out a mathematical formula about marriage. If 1 + 1 does not equal 1 then divide. At the ripe old age of 16 it was pretty clear to me, if two people cannot function as one then it’s...