Category: From the Heart!
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Meeting Your Blood Donor
A longtime friend of mine, Richard (Pancho) Gonzalez donates blood on a regular basis. He typically posts his adventures on Facebook as a challenge for others to do the same. I’ve tried giving blood but because of Rheumatoid Arthritis, I’m not an acceptable candidate. Some time ago an acquaintance posted something that caught my attention.…
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Life is Like a Postage Stamp…
I’ve been called many things throughout my like. Underachiever is not one of them. When I find something I enjoy doing (or have to do) I never do it ‘part way.’ I suppose that I’m a bit compulsive when it comes to achieving things. I enjoy the process, even when it’s painful. In my mind,…
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How About Now?
Over and over throughout my life I’ve seen first hand, it isn’t what you know that makes a difference, it’s who you know. Since coming back from the professional tennis circuit, I’ve only perused two different career paths. One selling commercial trucks for Ford Motor Company, and the second in the residential mortgage business. The…
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Homesickness…
I was a normal (ok, a little hyperactive) teenager. I had friends at school and had a happy family. This all changed when I turned 15. My mother died of cancer. As you can imagine, it was devastating. In the months and years that followed, I became more & more angry, lonely and isolated. My…
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Winningest Tennis Coach in History!
I’ve been playing tennis for over 40 years. I loved the game from the first time I held a racquet. Throughout the years I’ve strived to become a better player. I’ve taken lessons from world renowned coaches, read books by tennis experts and watched countless videos by Rick Macci and Patrick Mouratoglou. I have always…
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Free to Sing…
Rabindranath Tagore was a author, writer, poet, painter, composer and social activist who lived in India in the early 1900’s. He was even knighted by the British Government in 1915 (a few years later he resigned the honor as a protest against British policies in India). He once wrote, ‘I have on my table a violin…
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The Problem or The Solution?
I’m in the residential mortgage business. My wife and two of my three children are as well. We are a mortgage family and for the most part, and we love it. Today, in 2022 the mortgage rate environment is very high making it difficult for us to do business. This is the fourth major economic…
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Many have. Many more will. What will you do?
I recently wrote a book called, “Living Life by Design.” It took three long years but I’m very happy with the completed work. The tag line for the book is, “A roadmap to living the life you’ve always dreamed of…Guilt Free.” In the last chapter of the book I talk about the foundation one needs…
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It can be, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”
Ever since the day that Christ came into my heart, all my unexplained anger & hate that lived inside me vanished. I was changed from the inside out. I had a feeling of peace and calm that I’d never experienced before. Later in life I was given the moniker of, “Mr. Rogers.” Some called me…
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A Legacy of Life…
In Krakow during World War II, the Nazi Germans force local Polish Jews into overcrowded ghettos. Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party from Czechoslovakia, acquires a factory to produce enamelware. His workers were all Jews. Schindler is careful to maintain his “favored” relationship and friendship with the SS, mostly through bribes. As the…
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