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Your Focus, Your Choices, Your Behaviors

I sometimes wonder about humanity. They make very “interesting” choices when they are actually not present for their own experience. Case in point… Recently, I went out to run some errands. I […]

July 18, 2019 AKMPhoenix
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A Realization While at the Wheel

There are a couple places in my life where I can be fairly certain that, if I need inspiration, I can go there and something about being “there” brings forth […]

January 10, 2014 AKMPhoenix
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When Trepidation Causes You to Leave Your Own Lane

Where I live, there is a 6-lane highway which is heavily travelled and often congested. The speed on this particular highway gets up to 60 mph in some areas, but […]

November 23, 2013 AKMPhoenix
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When Being Safe Becomes Dangerous

Sometimes, precautions and safety measures put in place to “protect” people actually cause the danger to arise, bringing forth the very thing they are hoping to stop from happening… The other morning, […]

September 17, 2013 AKMPhoenix

It’s Ironic

Scene: Driving on a very busy, morning-rushhour-packed freeway; taking an exit behind a company truck; watching driver of that company truck flick a lit cigarette out his window; cigarette bouncing […]

January 31, 2012 AKMPhoenix

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

As I drove toward Jen’s house so we could get ready for our radio show this morning, I was thinking about how beautiful the day is, how grateful I am […]

February 24, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Making Note

This semester, I am taking ASL (American Sign Language) classes on Monday and Wednesday nights. My teacher gives a quiz every class at exactly 7:00 pm so I don’t want […]

February 9, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Time Well-Spent?

I arrived at my campus one hour and fifteen minutes prior to my required time BECAUSE finding a parking spot in this place is, literally, like finding a needle in […]

February 7, 2011 AKMPhoenix

Uglies

I was at my daughter’s school last Friday, celebrating Solsite and perusing their library. She had shown me a book she had checked out this week and it caught my […]

December 22, 2008 AKMPhoenix

Sparkling…

It snowed really hard a few days ago and, as I was driving into my office to meet a client, I noticed that the snow on the side of the […]

December 21, 2008 AKMPhoenix

Dazed and Safe

This morning the roads were a horrible mess and it took me two hours – two! hours! – to get to the office – a drive that, at max, takes […]

December 16, 2008 AKMPhoenix

Bee-Bop

It is amazing how good I feel this morning. I was in traffic that was at a dead-still stop on the freeway stuck between two double-length big rigs carrying gravel […]

July 30, 2008 AKMPhoenix

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