Blog excerpt from – THE ODYSSEY OF AGING: From Hero to Elder

“Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.” Carl Jung The world doesn’t need more self-proclaimed heroes. It needs more genuine elders – the kind of men and women who have walked through fire and don’t need to prove it by showing or talking about their scorched soles or […]

Machine Shop

Excerpt from Life is a Funny Old Dog I worked in my dad’s machine shop after school and on Saturdays and sometimes on Sundays. During the summer he would give me a full week’s vacation with pay, and I’d go and visit my granddaddy and grandma on his side of the family. It was there […]