Mom
It’s my mom’s birthday today, and as I sit here in my office forging my way through the day, I thought I would take some time and write to her and about her. Since she doesn’t have Facebook and is rarely on the computer, I think I will call her later and read this to her. I’m sure she will like that, I know I will. As I started thinking deeper about my mother’s birthday this morning, it dawned upon me that as time goes by it gets harder and harder to carve out the time to purposefully correspond with our loved ones. How many birthdays go by where we really take the opportunity to tell someone how special they are to us? How often do we take ourselves out of our comfort zone, and take the time to share part of ourselves with people important in our lives? For me, I try and do it as often as I can as part of my back nine self-improvement. I hope as you read through this piece and start pondering this for yourself, something will ignite and this spark will burn brighter and eventu...