I recently read an interesting post by Tom Hoobyar, a successful Silicon Valley CEO and Success Coach, called “Tom’s Twelve Laws of Life.”  They’re well worth reading and thinking about. One of Tom’s 12 Laws that stuck a chord with me was Number 4:  You make your habits, and then your habits make you.  How true, especially when it comes …

I’m halfway through an interesting book titled “Footprints in the Snow,”  the autobiography of a Chinese Buddhist monk who grew up during World War II and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.  It’s a story of how he struggled to keep his inner peace while the world around him was losing theirs. One of the chapters I found interesting was when he …

Although Teri and I love to go camping, there are a couple of things that can turn a great weekend outing into the Camping Trip from Hell.  As a companion piece to an earlier post (“10 Reasons to Love Camping“), here are 10 things that can make you hate camping: Boom Boxes. For some insane reason, some people just love …