I’ve been reading and rereading Dr. Henry Cloud’s book Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward. If you know me you know I am an avid and passionate Henry Cloud fan and LOVE all his books.
This particular book is about “Endings,” what they are, how we navigate them, why we avoid them. It’s about what we can learn from ending the jobs, the relationships and the projects and dreams that all of us have to give …

Maybe it was Kevin Costner’s lop-sided smile, or humble charm, or his puppy-dog eyes that got people’s attention. Or maybe it was his authenticity, or his passion for something no one else understood that got people to visit his baseball diamond in an Iowa corn field. But I don’t believe it was the field itself.

“Build it and they will come,” is arguably the most famous line from the 1989 movie, “Field of Dreams,” but what we remember is not Costner’s field, or his mantra. What we remember is his …

Okay, it’s warm weather, spring is in the air - yes, here in Virginia it is anyway - and in Atlanta too I hear. And today I received my copy of Caravan Cookbook: An Inspirational Guide to Family Cooking. It ROCKS. If you like cooking and food and camping - you will love this book. The link above is an affiliate link, cause I don’t get paid to review books - I just love checking out new stuff and the affiliate link helps me with my habit. I’d say that …

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I just finished writing an article for Trailer Life Magazine on a rapidly growing group of women called “Sisters On The Fly.” They are a group of women, married, single, widowed, divorced, heterosexual, lesbian and whatever, who buy old camping trailers, fix them up with a cowgirl theme and meet at rallies around the USA to laugh, drink Martinis and/or wine, fly-fish, go antiquing, do crafts or just hang out around the campfire with no men, boys or kids around. Adult …

Hi Jim.
Recently you reached out to me, someone who downloaded your Blurb book software, and asked for my opinion on a survey about your product. I love the software. But the survey didn’t give me anywhere to write about that. I could click radio buttons to indicate an answer and enter myself into your free iPod giveaway, but I really wanted to give you some feedback and tell you how utterly awesome your site is. I’d love to win the iPod, but really I was looking forward to was giving …