Category: Leaving a trail for our Son

All Mid Life Celebration posts from 2008 – 2014.

It’s Already Started

The Christmas decorations are up in many places, including the Magic Kingdom theme park. And two nights straight, we’ve listened to Christmas music.

When do you start to get in the Christmas spirit?

Of course, there are some Mid Life Celebration readers who don’t celebrate Christmas. All are welcome here.

Growing older, it seems the miracle of Christ’s birth is magnified, as we get closer to the time when we will no longer be here.

Next Blog

But You’re The Internet’s Only…

One Of Florida's Nicest State Parks
One Of Florida's Nicest State Parks

The young children in your life are watching you. And you are making an impression they can actually articulate.

Ever have this happen to you?

On the weekend Cub Scout camping trip, I chose not to blog for two days.

So Saturday morning, when I reminded Chapin (10) I wasn’t blogging, he said, “But you’re the Internet’s only five-a-day blogger”!

Yes, and after 18 months of 7-days-a-week writing five daily blogs, the time has come to reclaim some life-balance.

Do you think he’ll notice?

Do you think the young people in your life notice?

Next Blog

Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No

Lahti, Finland Street Improvements
Lahti, Finland Street Improvements

Are you thinking about the calculated risk(s) you want, or need, to take today?

Or have you given up on risks?

Thrive on risks?

Remember the Michelangelo post a few days ago? It would have been so much easier, and quicker, for him to paint the Sistine floor.

Next Blog

Randy Pausch The Last Lecture

In 2007, Randy Pausch, married, 3 kids six and under, Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, Disney Imagineer, and all-around good and brilliant guy, was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer, the worst kind, with the lowest survival rate. Randy gave a 75-minute Last Lecture (also on You Tube), but this 10-minute version is a reprise he did on the Oprah Winfrey Show. It surprises me, still, how many people have never heard of Randy Pausch or The Last Lecture (Randy’s Book). You owe it to yourself, if you still have unfulfilled childhood dreams, to watch. You can thank me later: