OUR REAL ESTATE MEETUP GROUP The four of us – John Veitch, Ron Duvall, Diane Fouts and I – have been volunteering our time leading a real estate investors meetup group in West Volusia County for the past five years or so. Here we are at a picnic at Gemini Springs Park last September. Once
WE WALKED FOR WARRIORS Susan Fisher Walker and I enjoyed a 3-mile walk this morning, starting the year thinking about the men and women in uniform all over the world serving on our behalf. We also were remembering family members and friends of ours who are serving or have served. Susan and I grew up
ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS Here we are and the end of a calendar year. I realize it is just a human construct, the calendar. But, in nature, here in the northern hemisphere, at this time of year, there is a change. A cosmic ending and beginning is happening. The darkness that has grown longer and longer
LAST OF THE YEAR I’m getting ready to take my last run of 2023. It is a bit of a chilly morning here in DeLand. Tom and I run every Saturday morning at the Lake Woodruff Wildlife Reserve, about 3 miles on the grassy levees around the marshes. We’ll see otters, sandhill cranes, many water
WALK WITH ME ON NEW YEAR’S MORNING Join me in front of my home (526 N. Sans Souci Avenue, DeLand, near Stetson between Minnesota and University Avenues) at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, January 1, 2024. We’ll walk about 3 miles, following the MeStrong route. We’ll walk about an hour or so. I am doing this
ONE WAY DOOR There is a one-way door ahead. Once you go through it, you can’t go back. At the most basic level, it is the change from 2023 to 2024. A brand new year is a one-way door of sorts. It can be a personal decision that you actually follow through on, are committed
COMING OFF PRETTY FAST Dr. Jenkins, my Physics professor at Stetson, took out a roll of toilet paper to teach a physics lesson. He pulled off 10 sheets and we counted the revolutions. He did this over and over, 10 sheets at a time, and we noticed the number of revolutions kept increasing. The paper
LEARN FROM 2023, GET READY FOR 2024 Tonight, December 26th, at 8:00 pm, I will walk through a different way of preparing for the New Year ahead. I invite you to join me on Zoom. It is not so much classic goal setting. It is learning from what has gone on this year and applying
LETTING GO Our grandchildren from Colorado came to visit last year. One of our favorite places to go was the Freedom Playground at Bill Dreggors Park. The kids would make new friends and run around. They really enjoyed the zip line, the big climbing structure, the merry-go-round, and the overhead ladders. As you remember, the
