Michael’s Musings
Mother’s Day is a special occasion where we honor all of the sacrifices and hard work that mothers across the nation endure. Moms deserve more than a day, they deserve at least a week, and more appropriately a month. The job of a mother is not for the faint of heart. An unconditional love burns...
The month of May is upon us. May is a fantastic month. The weather begins to warm but is not beastly hot like the months of July and August can be. Golf courses are in full swing, fishermen are gearing up for the opener, but perhaps the best reason that May is a fantastic month… no mosquitos. That...
I let my dog outside the other night to “use the yard” before bedtime. That’s what we like to call it in my family. I stood on the front porch looking down at my phone, mindlessly scrolling through random content and getting sucked down a cyber rabbit hole. I glanced up to see if Lola had finished...
Earth Day is coming this Monday, an annual event that occurs on April 22 of each year and has been occurring every year since 1970. This year’s theme is “Planet vs. Plastics.” I admit that I slightly cringed when I first read the title of this year’s theme. Plastic is a tough one, because it’s...
Summer is fast approaching, and school will be out soon. If you have young, or elementary aged children, it can be a challenge to keep those kiddos busy during the unstructured summer months when they are out of the classroom. Maybe you’re a grandparent who helps watch the grandkids while mom and...
April is stress awareness month. There’s a day and month for everything it seems, but stress is something we all experience. The goal of stress awareness month is to draw attention to the negative impacts that stress can have on our physical, emotional, and mental well-being. According to the...
Spring is a time of renewal. It has a different feel than the change into a new year on January 1, which offers the turning of the calendar and the many resolutions we may or may not follow through on. Change of season has a lot to do with why it feels different. When spring rolls around, we...
Madness has descended upon us, kicking off a three week stretch of wall-to-wall basketball. Both the men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments are sure to thrill fans with buzzer beaters and high drama this year. The college basketball postseason has an energy that’s unmatched in other...
Why is it so hard to meditate? You just sit and do nothing. It can’t be that difficult, can it? Well, if you’ve ever tried to truly sit and do nothing, you’ll find that it’s extremely difficult. In less than a second, your mind begins to chatter. It searches relentlessly for something to occupy it...
You never know what life will throw at you. There have been a fair number of times over the years where I’ve found myself in a situation that I never saw coming and thought, how did I end up here, at this very moment? I can recall one such occasion. It was a cold Friday night in May. The weather...
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