It’s nineteen eighty-something, a time I call BC, before children. As I sit in traffic in my older model Datsun 1200 on my to work early on a Friday morning, I notice a guy about my age driving
Continue readingIt’s nineteen-ninety something and my son is having difficulty making friends at school. At the evening table the typical question to my kids is “What was something good that happened
Continue readingIt’s just the other day and, one of my office mates mentions she has seen my Facebook posts. “What is the StoryAthlete Challenge you are doing?” she asks. “Are you doing some
Continue readingIt is March, nineteen seventy-something and soon to graduate high school, Rex is sitting in the guidance counselor’s office. Mrs. Reddick, the guidance counselor assigned to me, looks me
Continue readingIt’s nineteen-seventy something and my parents had recently purchased a condo at Cocoa Beach. My Mom has always loved the beach, coming from Upstate New York, her dream was to be in the sun,
Continue readingKathie and I were doing out Sunday morning grocery shopping. It is one of our rituals that we both enjoy. A quiet time to talk and plan out our week. Even the order in which we walk up and down
Continue readingIt’s nineteen-eighty something and people at Jessica’s daycare are amazed. Jessica was able to move up to the bigger kid room because she was potty trained at an earlier than normal age. “How
Continue readingI’ve Been This Way Before – Neil Diamond Today is the first day in a long time I have challenged myself physically. And it felt good. Up until four years ago, I had a routine that kept
Continue readingIt’s nineteen ninety-something and my half-sister is in town making her once every two-year visit. I knew something was up when she suggested: “Rex, let’s you and I have lunch together.” I
Continue readingIt’s the turn of the century, yes, nineteen ninety-nine, and my Mom and I were walking out of the office to our family business on New Year’s Eve. She was seventy-seven at the time.
Continue readingIt’s current day and my mentor and business partner Ryan asks a question none of us as an adult like to think about. What was that question? “How many days do you have left and how do you
Continue readingIt’s nineteen-sixty something and being the only child of older parents I am a bit of a social misfit. “Hey, Mom!” I yell from the backyard “Can I go over to Tommy house to
Continue readingIt’s early two-thousand and something as I limp into the office where my parents and I have our family business. My Mom looks up from her computer screen having watched me struggle to get to
Continue readingIt’s two-thousand and something and my wife, Kathie, is watching Rue Paul’s Drag Race. I did not expect to gain words of wisdom from the show, but I did. Rue ends the show with “If
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