Have you spent to much money over the summer? Now you have to save up for Thanksgiving and Christmas. What are you going to do so you can save up the Christmas holidays? May I suggest you read a book? I am offering a discount until January 1, 2025. Save $4.00 I have worked out …
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Team Influence
My observations over the past few weeks has given me new insights to how team members can influence each other. When a team works at its best, the team as a whole functions in combination of a lifetime observations and experiences. In my life, where I had to deal with various groups of people tasked …
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See State Fair
I purposely titled this post See State Fair instead of the multitude of other titles that would make more since. Over the years, I average going to the Western Idaho State Fair every other year. From one year to the next, the fair can be boring. Seeing basically the same thing every year. Granted, some …
Read MoreWe Love Conflict
In my travels this weekend, it came to my attention how we all love conflict. It can be either reciting a personal experience or viewing a sporting event, i.e. the Paris Olympics. Granted, some of my conversations this past week have been boring. They were told me to impart information and help my understanding. However, …
Read MoreA Different Tree
This last Sunday morning, I sat on the balcony of a friend’s apartment, watching and listening to the sight and sounds of the neighborhood as the sun crept above the smoky haze. A row of trees blocked neighboring houses and apartments. One tree stood directly in front of where I sat caught my attention. The …
Read MoreJames (Sparky) Miller
I get asked how I create my characters. Most of the time it happens during the early morning hours, in between a dreamlike state and reaching for my first cup of coffee. Sometimes I have this imaginary conversation with them, other times my mind listens to them tell me their story. Below is one such …
Read MoreThe Shuttered Reality
In Shuttered Reality, we look through the lens to see Jason Roberts joining the Army. After boot camp, the Army trained Jason as a photographer and sent him to Germany. There he took photographs across the Berlin Wall. A couple weeks before the Christmas of 1967, Corporal Jason Roberts took some leave time in Hamberg, …
Read MoreTale of Two Strokes
“Tell me the truth. Are you going to leave me?” Mark Reynolds stands on the sidewalk on a cool summer morning. Mark’s heart sinks. He stands frozen, wanting Ellen to talk to him.
Read MoreShuttered Reality
Through the lens of Jason Roberts, you will experience what it is like to take the wrong photograph and end up in the middle of the Vietnam War. Instead of being defeated, he learns how to take charge of the circumstances around him.
Read MoreThe Pool Tournament
It’s eleven on a Sunday at Club 23. Over the years, the annual St Patrick’s Day pool tournament drawn competitors and spectators from miles around. Pool playing leagues have approached the owner to be one stop in their tour toward finding a national champion. The owners would decline. All the coin tosses were done using …
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