Download Life Guide Our daughter Carrie was a little more than four years old when the two of us took road trip to attend my uncle’s funeral. On the ride home Carrie chattered away about seeing Grandma and her cousins, but eventually the conversation dropped off. I had assumed that Carrie had fallen asleep until that sweet little voice broke the silence…
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Tell me, how many of you came from a family that had more than one child? Raise your hand if you had at least one brother or sister. A lot of you have come from homes where there were multiple children. So tell me, did it ever feel like your parents played favorites? You know, treated you differently than your brothers of…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that we’re in the heart of political election season. Right now, candidates are duking it out to be their party’s candidate for the presidency, which means that in recent political debates, we’re seeing a lot of finger pointing and “flip flopping.” One candidate accuses, “My opponent has opposed cutting taxes for decades, and…
Download Life Guide “Mind…the gap. Mind…the gap. Mind…the gap.” If you’ve ever used the London Underground subway system, then you might know that phrase. For those who don’t know, “mind the gap” is played on an audio loop over a loudspeaker each time a subway train pulls up to a station platform. Aside from being an awesome “Britishism,” what’s the point of “mind…
Very often in life… timing is everything. If your timing is good… things will go well… if your timing is off a bit… it can be disastrous. A good example of this is what happened back in 2010 at a Houston Rockets basketball game. Many of you have probably seen a video of someone proposing to their girlfriend in the middle of…
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Download Life Guide People love competition. Last weekend the Super Bowl became the third most watched broadcast in television history with 111.9 million TV viewers. Can you guess the top two most watched shows of all time? The Super Bowls the previous two years! And it’s not just the commercials people tune in to watch… it’s the competition. We can’t get enough of it… The…