Cultivate Courage Blog

I am fortunate to live in the same community as one of my daughters, our son-in-law, and our grandchildren. One of the great benefits of this is I get to see them often. It seems like every time I hang out with them I learn something from them. Both my granddaughter...

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It was a beautiful fall Saturday, a great day for raking and cleaning the yard in preparation for the snow to fly. I borrowed a pick up truck from a friend to haul the leaves and the brush to the dump. His work location was fairly close to the landfill so he told me...

It was the day after my younger brother’s successful quintuple bypass surgery. I was sitting in his ICU room. My back was to the window facing his bed and looking out the door to the nurse’s station in the circular ICU area. He had tubes everywhere. Monitors were...

If you are old enough to remember it you know exactly where you were when you heard the news. Even thinking about it thirteen years later brings up an incredibly hollow feeling that will never be filled. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a survivor or a...

The light turned green and I inched forward in anticipation of the car in front of me accelerating and moving on to wherever he was going. Nothing happened. My daughter was with me. I tapped the horn. I didn’t lay on it as I probably would have if she hadn’t been in...