Blog: Empowered Living
Expressive old expressions
Even as a kid, I loved the expressions and turns of phrase that frequented conversations…
To be wise or to have wisdom
I recently saw a quote that read something like this: “To be wise is not…
I’ll be home
It was bitter cold, and the plastic sheeting that lined the walls where the renovations…
Little town, big lessons
My wife and I spent Friday and Saturday in a small town in deep East…
Can you hear me now?
One of my subscribers has a hard time reading my writings due to the gradual…
Changing the holiday name…let’s do this
This Thursday, people around America will celebrate a holiday, doing so with food, football games…
A hundred times, “no”
I have a special folder somewhere in a filing cabinet housed in a storage unit.…
Voting…making choices in life
I voted the other day and yesterday and today and I will vote tomorrow. No,…
Steinbeck, Kerouac, Heat-Moon…the road beckons
One of the books that was required reading between eighth grade and freshman year was…
A three-hour tour…a three-hour tour
I’ve become more solitary over the past dozen years, or so, though it has been…