Life is precious. Particularly, to someone who is 78 and playing the “back nine.” This leads me to my first snippet of wisdom: Time is infinite. It cannot be banked but can be lost instantly. Look at it as a commodity that you purchase through the Apple app store. Let’s say it is packaged in…

Several nights ago, I listened to another beautiful song on YouTube. “Somewhere in Time” has perhaps the most haunting melody I’ve ever heard. The version I heard came with a trailer for the movie from which the song came. The story involves a young man who becomes captivated by the picture of an actress who…

My advice to younger generations is to seek God’s wisdom through prayer and reading, studying, and listening to God’s Word daily. By doing this, He will enable us to discern between good and evil. I am an 83-year-old blessed father of three boys and 10 grandchildren, who reads the Bible and prays every morning, asking…

I have eight grandkids, all younger than the age of 5. Two pieces of wisdom: If what you do today shows up on the front of the newspaper tomorrow morning, would your mother be proud or disappointed? It isn’t the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it’s the things we…

I think that the next generation will need to be tough mentally as well as physically to meet the challenges they will inherit. When I look at my three young grandsons, I wonder what their world will look like. I worry that their world will not be as pleasant as the one I have lived…

I want to offer to young people that they can do anything they put their minds to do; happiness and success are very personal and individual. When I was 11, we moved from the city in California to rural Idaho. So when I wanted to go to a friend’s, I would complain to my dad….

I loved the article “Surprised by Hope” written by Jeff Minick. I lived that “life” for a short time in the ’60s and ’70s and ’80s. I’m only 76 years old, but I still think I have some wisdom to share. I was born in the ’40s just after War World II to a couple…

I am a very proud grandfather to three beautiful grandkids. I was a cop for 35 years working the streets and being involved in investigations as a detective. The downside was that I missed a lot of my own daughter’s activities, including pageants and birthdays. That completely changed as a “grandpapa.” I took time out…

Eight years ago, my youngest daughter, who’s now 30 years old, asked me to write a book for her. It was in the middle of winter and dusk had just turned to darkness as I landed at the Dayton, Ohio, international airport. Hours before, I was at our home in New Hampshire. Two weeks prior…