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Grief and the Holidays: Christmas and a Recipe Card
Me prepping the chocolate. For those of us who’ve lost a parent or family member, particularly around the holidays, this time of year can have some rough patches as we remember our loved ones. In December of 2015, I...
6 Ways to Grow In Gratitude this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving with the Electric Strawberry (25th Infantry Division) “Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” C.K.Chesterson A SPECIAL NOTE: I am thankful to be an American, I am thankful to be a Veteran, and I am...
Resilient Leadership Wins, Part 1
“You must manage yourself before you can lead others.” Zig Ziglar Your true leadership abilities or lack of them will reveal themselves in a crisis. At that moment when the crap hits the fan, you will either rise to...
El Paso: Hope Amid Chaos
(c) 2019 John Thurman El Paso Memorial, Tuesday Recently America experiences a weekend was filled with horror, death, fear, anxiety, panic, and dread as news spread of the El Paso shootings and the second shock of the...
D-Day Thoughts
In the summer of 1977, I was a newly minted twenty-five-year-old U.S. Army Chaplain assigned to the 1st Battalion, 153rd Infantry, 39th Infantry Brigade of the Arkansas Army National Guard. It was my first time for...
6 Ways to Crush the Fear Criticism
Depositphotos The fear of criticism robs a person of their initiative, destroys imagination, limits to ambition, extin-guishes dreams, steals self-reliance, and does, Lord only knows how much more damage. -Napoleon...
