Eight-word poem.

Desire smashes against reality.

There are some things that you take for granted.

A lesson we can learn from the process of forging a sword.

Just when you think you know someone, they can turn around and surprise you.

Few people saw life as Ernest Hemingway did. A restless spirit drawn to the risk-takers and the courageous, Hemingway understood probably better than any writer man’s essential nature. Here are several quotations from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea about growing old and being tough.

At one time or the other in our lives, we all experience some form of difficulty. Our ability to get through these troubles, depends to a great extent, on our determination to struggle and to adopt the right attitude.

These are the words I could eke out today.

The dysfunctional monster that lives in my brain.

One family’s adventure into the search for their ancestry and the many surprises they run into.