An Ounce - For Your Consideration

How do you feel about your mistakes? Do they make you angry, embarrass you, make you feel like a failure, or cause you to want to give up?

Do you blame them on someone else?

Do you try to ignore them? 

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Here we are at the close of another summer. Kids are back to school, the nights are cooling off, and if you haven’t yet, you’ll probably be watching a football game. Be it community league, College, …

Well, I’ve never been one to shy away from a good story, even when the historians and other ‘experts’ can’t agree on the details. And, this story… It’s a good one - about the deadliest Sniper ever in…

Corkie Mann shares a story about overcoming the negative labels and tags placed on us. She shares a sweet story as an advocate for one of her children. And, with encouragement, how he overcame challe…

Like many folks, my wife and I are closet preppers. We try to keep a supply of emergency food and supplies stashed away, just in case. It came in pretty handy during the recent ‘pandemic inspired’ ec…

One of the great joys in life, especially during the late summer, is the crunchy, sweet, and buttery satisfaction of good sweet corn on the cob. 

In one particular small farming community there lived …

Have you ever played with one of those little brain teaser puzzles made from two pieces of metal? They are usually intertwined in some way that makes them seem impossible to separate them, but there …

August 7, 1945, began as such a pleasant day, in spite of the state of the world at that time. Tutsumo Yamaguachi remembers the sound of a single aircraft circling above the city. This was a common o…

It’s kind of interesting how one can get so much more than the words out of a song. It seems to be a more comprehensive way to communicate. Even when the lyrics are nonsense, there is something there…

One of those things in US history that is well known - and beyond debate - is the identity of our iconic first President, General George Washington.

The one who chopped down the cherry tree and could …

Have you ever met someone that has that great attitude? You know. That person who – when life throws them a curveball or an unexpected outcome, they smile, laugh, and somehow find a way to have fun w…

In the mid-1980’s I had the privilege of serving in the United States Air Force. My job was Firefighter, and the one and only assignment I had was at McChord Air Force Base, in Washington. It was a b…

Got an intriguing story about a woman born into an economic and social advantage. For now, we’ll call her ‘the statistician’. Think you can you guess who she is before her name is revealed?

You’ve pro…

From  The Podcasters Wife:
This ounce comes from a sweet conversation I had with my Late Father-in-law - Chad Fugate -it was about 25 years ago. He and his wife Marilyn visited our family in the fall …

Mirrors! We love them and hate them.  They however they are neutral. They don’t care. They don’t hate. They don’t love. They are completely dispassionate. They show us everything we like and everythi…

I’ve found a well-loved character that is worthy of a deep dive. A deep dive into who he is and where he came from. A truly unique character filled with his own kind of wisdom, and a somewhat surpris…

A thought-provoking narrative - shared in purposeful contrast  - to the episode released last week (The Wedge).

 This is a fairly well-known poem from the past, that brilliantly illustrates the concep…

I’ve got another thought-provoking story to tell you. It’s an adaption based on Chapter 7 of Earl Nightingales' book, ‘On Success’, a classic book from the early self-improvement collection. The adap…

Our world is becoming more litigious by the day. And, there have been some consequences of that tendency that we all see, every day, and more and more than ever. It’s getting to the point where we ne…