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StoryTime with Zooch audio books will be available for the iPad in June…this is wonderful news for my company Twinkletopia, LLC.  We’ve been working so hard to bring the Zooch products to market and this is a great opportunity for us.  We’ve partnered with Virtual Scribe  to develop the app for iPad and bring our audio and […]

Keeping humor in your family life is so imortant.  Just being as happy as you can be with family members can make life so much simpler and easy.
Talk Show Host Dennis Prager wrote a great book a few years ago titled “Happiness is a Serious Problem” in which he talks a lot about how it is […]

There is no such thing as a coincidence and you should teach your children that concept.
That is a huge statement in this day and age.  Most people have lost faith in God, or were never introduced to the religious/spiritual world.  That’s sad, too, because we have so much to gain from spiritual confidence.  Things happen […]

Zooch the Pooch is on Facebook, yeaaaa!  On Twitter we are known as “Zoochy Poochy” cause the other name was taken, drats!  It’s so much fun setting all of these new social networking sites up and working with them.  You can learn them so quickly anymore and the interfaces between Facebook and Twitter is easier […]

I attended a lecture today by the noted futurist John Petersen of The Arlington Institute and was fascinated, as I always am, by minds that can stretch in so many directions so easily. Mr. Petersen was eloquent in his description of where we have come from and where we are going that I left […]

Valentines Day is approaching and I wanted to get my Dad a card so off to my local Walgreens I went. This isn?..t a plug for them, but Walgreens always seems to have a great selection of cards for most every occasion, plus I have one a block from my home making it very convenient.
It […]

Don’t you find the Biggest Loser contestants inspirational? I can’t watch that show without feeling compassion and empathy for those folks. You want to cheer them on at every difficult point and sometimes I do, shouting out loud at my TV (goofy, I know, but then no one sees me either .

Isn’t inspiration a wonderful […]

Humor is so good for the human psyche, and our physical and mental health. I received an email from a friend today which included a clip of Harvey Corman and Tim Conway, television stars of the 70’s and 80’s. In it, Conway played a bumbling dentist who accidentally injects himself with a numbing pain killer […]

I’ve been an avid follower of the new Law of Attraction work being done by the folks who produced the video and book “The Secret“. The Law of Attraction simply states that like attracts like, so when we have happy thoughts we attract happy circumstances. Of course, the opposite is true too, so having happy […]

Philosophy has been a favorite subject for as long as I can remember; it seems to come out of most experiences we have in life and sets the stage for discussion about the why’s and where for’s of our existence.
For over a decade cycling has given me much fodder for thought, prior to that it […]

The bank of clouds racing swiftly across the city were omnious, dark and roiling with dust and debris. He was high on the dam of a local reservoir overlooking the city when he turned and saw this sight. He knew a front was to come in later, but the last time he had looked north […]

Over the weekend some friends and I (that’s me at far left above) drove almost 12 hours to race in two different bicycle races at different ends of Colorado. I can see the expression on your face, and the question in your mind…why? Because it’s fun, of course.
Yes, it was a lot of driving, but […]

A couple of days ago, I received a comment to one of my recent posts that was laden with foul language. The author attempted to insult me and thus elevate himself, but his message, which had merit, got lost in the vulgar diatribe.
It has become a tool of comedians who have no talent to swear […]

TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do […]

I keep hearing in the news, radio shows, and even in Jan Leno’s “man on the street interviews” that our children know very little American history, let alone any that is positive, and this fact worries me. Evidently I’m not the only one who has noticed this. Many people are opting for the traditional Catholic […]