A friend was moving, and asked if I would help. I quickly said yes- too quickly as it turned out. By the tenth box of heavy books I’d packed and carried to the front porch, I realized what was wrong. It wasn’t my aching back or stuffed sinuses; it was the resentment gnawing at me. […]

Today, on Wednesday, yes, Humpday, for a myriad of various reasons; not necessarily good reasons but reasons made good necessarily good, I am preparing our extended families’ annual “Day Before Thanksgiving” meal. Late last night, I returned from travel abroad. 

We all know how hard it is to perform when we are under pressure.   Bottom line; expectations make things more difficult.  If we have no expectations we are always satisfied with the results.  Even bad results far exceed zero expectations.   I vividly remember Mike Tyson’s terror as a boxer on his way to […]

I took the meeting because a man I respect (Andrew Jackson of Poor Irishman Internet Marketing; “the Guy” behind my website… www.LonKieffer.com) suggested that I meet Hal to discuss my latest project; “Defending the Caregiver!”   He told me that Hal is a great writer!   I immediately applied my skeptical “mental filter” (Mental Filtering […]