A man in a grocery store heard a little girl say "look at that fat man," and turned around to see who she meant. What Zig Ziglar's story taught me about how I talk about myself.
We Meet Our Fate Together
My son made a list of older movies to watch with me. Lean on Me put three redemption stories on the screen at once, and none of them happened alone.
Why Every Self-Help Book Frustrated Me — Until I Stopped Looking for a Map
Twenty years of notebooks. The same goals in younger handwriting. I wasn't failing. I was restarting, and I never once marked where I stood.
Nobody Quotes the Tournament
The Karate Kid's tournament is twenty minutes. Everything people quote is in the other hundred. What the boring parts of a movie taught me about the boring parts of a life.
Dead, Dead, Dead
The car was dead in the parking lot at work. Twenty years ago it would have ruined my evening. This week it didn't, and I've been thinking about why.
