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Sitting at dinner the other night with the extended family one of my nieces posed the following question to all ten of us present. “Would you rather lose the internet or lose a leg?” An easy question to pose, or answer, when one has all limbs and a choice. But for an innocent twelve year old, with little life experience, it seems a big question. What surprised me were the two adults who chose the internet over the leg. After all, we grew up without the internet, so in my mind

"We speak a lot about sunrises...and sunsets. It’s what happens in between that usually counts the most. Kinda like the dates on a headstone...there’s a whole heap hidden behind that dash." ~ Max Earle I read this Facebook quote by my friend Max on the day before my Dad turned 80 years old and it really had a profound effect on me. I’m with my family in Barbados to celebrate this birthday and milestone with him. Now, having read the quote I was also very thankful that we were

By the time you read this I’ll be in Barbados. I heading there on Tuesday with the family to celebrate my Dad’s 80th birthday and it’ll be the first time in a long time that we will all be together. However, I’m writing this the day before I leave simply because it’s my normal writing day. As I sat down to write this morning—with the intention of saying something of a completely different nature by the way—two things came to mind. The first was Zig Ziglar, going on in his tal

I’m really going to date myself when I say this but here goes. Many years ago I used to have a pen pal, a friend who I had never met who lived in England. She and I used to write each other letters sharing whatever was going on in our lives at the time. At some point she started to send little gifts in the letters, a sticker for instance. Over time I had quite a collection and they were all kept in my ‘treasure box’, which really happened to be an old cigar box that my Dad no

I felt proud when it was over, my chest felt like it had puffed out further than any peacock I’d ever seen. I had spent an hour watching the US Army Military Tattoo and I was inspired, proud of their accomplishments and capabilities, and I’m not even American! A tattoo is a demonstration of the capabilities of the armed forces and this one, because it was presented as the sun set, was called a Twilight Tattoo. This was a first for me and I found it impressive. It included mus