Savor Life’s Sweet Moments
The ability to savor life’s victories and sweet moments is a sign of a healthy, high-functioning and happy person. People…
At Hosparus Health, every life is important.
As we approach the holidays and the end of a challenging year, I think you’d agree that 2020 has not…
Give Me Patience, But Please Hurry
Not a day goes by, and usually not even an hour, when we don’t face the considerable challenge of waiting…
Take Time to Record Your Life Stories
My mother, her brother and her sister all lived with Alzheimer’s disease. In a family prone to Alzheimer’s, I have…
The Missing Piece
One of human nature’s most effective ways of sabotaging happiness is to look at a beautiful scene and fixate on…
The Time Is Now
We are all constantly stressed about time. You have a major deadline for a project at work, and the stress…
We Don’t Have to Know Everything
It’s OK not to know everything. Instead of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, we as leaders have to…
How Do You Talk to Yourself?
What we say to other people is important, but what we say to ourselves is far more important. It is…
Finding Serenity
Villains get punished and heroes triumph in well-made plays and books. In life it’s not easy to say who’s who.…
Measure Your Motives
Sometimes it is great for our souls to stop and examine our motives. After all, why are we living? Many…
The Power of Love
As you get older, life brings new uncertainties and changes. Luck becomes a much more visible companion of your life,…
Why Cultural Sensitivity Matters
Facing conditions we would like to change, letting go of people we wish were different, takes growth, patience, tolerance. We’re…
The Happy Caregiver
I saw a happy woman today – someone who was vibrant with life. She was on television. She was so…
The World Needs You
The world needs you. We all need you. To get a handle on your fears, embrace then. Look them in…
This Day Will Never Come Again
One insight that completely changed the quality of my life came from the writings of Trappist monk Thomas Merton from…
Practice and Persistence
In seminary, we had speech class to prepare us for the pulpit and for the countless times we would be…
Greet Each Day With Joy
To me, the ultimate compliment I can give a person is to say, “That person makes me happy, always makes…
A Basic Need to Connect
Connecting is what our ancestors were doing thousands of years ago when they gathered around the fire to eat woolly…
One Red Tulip
For the last 15 years, the landscaping of a major corporation has been exactly the same. Every fall, dozens of…
The Power of Stories
I am forever searching for ideas to illustrate a point, to spark passion, or to provoke reflection. If old truths…
Life’s Not Fair
Life’s not fair. Just ask anyone who gets seriously ill or injured through no fault of their own. Or those…
To My 12-Year-Old Self
Dear 12-year-old Bob, So, you are still at St. Barnabas grade school and not quite a teenager. While you are…
Use Your Imagination
“Imagine” is my favorite John Lennon ballad. He asks us to see a world where people live in peace and…
Be A Little More Humble
Can you imagine if everyone were a little more humble? It would certainly be a nicer world if we were…
Overcoming Negativity
There is so much negativity in our world. Our society is so fragmented and our politics so polarized that negative…
A Code of Compassion
I am daily moved by the compassion of donors to hospice. One woman wanted to assure that her children learned…
Life Can Be An Exciting Game
I love sports and spend extra time reading the sports page in the paper every day. I believe that life…
What I Know Now
What’s your background? I’m home-grown, from Louisville. I went into the seminary at an early age, here in Louisville at…
The Mystery of Death
In my work with hospice over the years, I have learned that the mystery of death is always there in…
You Are More Than You Think
In high school, we were always writing essays. It was part of English composition class. For one essay, we were…