"Your life will be no better than the plans you make, and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, and destiny." Alfred Armand Montapert

Loosening the grip...

Someone with infinite wisdom, must have said "The past will continue to be your future, if you drag it along with you!" what I failed to realize in the past few months is that I have been doing exactly that... dragging the past along with me and I don't want to ever look back. T …

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The Surpreme Court and Health Care

I often wonder if those involved in this debate know all the facts regarding the healthcare initiative.  It has been a benefit to millions of children who would otherwise be without healthcare, as well as seniors who are able to get reasonable medical services and medic …

My Island

Have you ever considered yourself to be an island? I know this is a foreign concept, but you are but one person in a sea of many.

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Crossroads and fate...

There are moments in all of our lives, where something happens that makes us wonder if it is meant to be there for a reason.

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Finding Forgiveness...

Sometimes in life, we have to reflect on the past and find away to move forward in our future, we experience good and bad and it teaches us to be strong or weak, to be open, or closed to others.    We go through a metamorphis and just like a caterpillar, we change …

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Where are you going in 2012?

This same time last year I made a list of goals that I wanted to achieve in 2011... it has been a remarkable one filled with lots of highs and very few lows.   For the most part, we fulfilled most of our resolutions...

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Amazing moments....

There is very little in my life that makes me cry, not movies, or sad commercials, or even some proud moment in this life of parenthood.   It takes alot to get me emotionally moved beyond words, but today something miraculous happened and I cried. A few weeks ago I sha …

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Fullfilling Christmas Wishes...

For everyone in the Dallas Ft. Worth area... I am asking you to please give back this holiday season, give the gift that keeps on giving and get swabbed for my Wish Child Zach and for others like Zach...

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What Rick Perry's Really Done For Texas

This is just a glimpse of what I hope to be a new awakening to all those outside of Texas.  

Living out your dreams...

Do you remember a time in your life where you had dreams of what you wanted your future to look like? You know the typical dreams of a child, "I want to be a policeman" or "I want to be an actress."  We would sit on the playground for hours, making believe we were …

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Lessons learned...

They say that the measure of man, or woman’s depth as a person, is by the way they treat others.  You never truly know a person until you see how they react to certain situations and issues and then and only then will the truth be revealed.   I have found th …

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Finding Love...

Have you ever had a moment where you felt like you were going to burst with joy? You know the feeling, where you are so happy that you are waiting for the bubble to pop, so that you can get back to reality.

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An Open Letter to Charlie Sheen

Compassionate and direct... maybe he will read it and see the truth between the lines.

Finding yourself...

Have you ever felt like you were stuck in a maze, you know the kind with walls so high that no matter how hard you try, you just can’t see over them? It leaves you sort of wondering around trying to find what direction you should be going.

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Acceptance...

It’s a funny thing about life, we are all just doing our best to make our way through it, enjoying the moments we can and trying to survive the ones that make us feel as though we can’t take anymore.

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Missing...

Have you ever had someone in your life that left it and you aren’t sure why? It is not as if it was anything horrible, or some huge blow up or argument, just a choice one day for things to be different, so much so that you can’t even understand why it happened.

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Living Life on Your Own Terms...

You know in life, we never really know what will happen from day to day, we never know what time we may have on this Earth, with our family and friends, or with the partners of our choosing.

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Ted Williams Quits Rehab

This is a sad case, but I feel like Origins is not being given a fair shake in this... Mr. Williams is an active alcoholic, who is not ready to get treatment.

The Unraveling

For this easygoing soul, there are moments in life that I am just astounded by others, whether it is in a positive or negative way.

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Forgiveness...

Have you ever been walking on a path and goofing around with friends, suddenly you are pushing each other back and forth, until one of you inevitably falls? It seems to me that at times our life is similar to this path, life tugs on us and pushes us around, sometimes in fun, som …

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Band-Aids of life...

Have you ever had one of those moments in your life, when you just felt strong, I don’t mean able to pick up a 400 lbs weight, but strong mentally… its like even when things aren’t going your way, you just have this overwhelming sense of calm and peace.

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Progress not perfection...

With anything in life, when starting something new, we often take baby steps to become acclimated to how things work, this is true with relationships, changes in lifestyle, or just breaking a bad habit.

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When you don't know where you are going...

Have you ever had one of those periods in your life where you just don’t know where you are going? There are times I feel like a man lost without a map, I too fail to ask direction, for fear of appearing a failure, instead I search aimlessly for a sign, a sign showing the  …

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Life is a funny thing...

None of us really know how our life will turn out, much like an unfinished puzzle that is missing a few key pieces, the picture is never really clear until the end.

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Bullying.... Life does get better

LZ Granderson is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, and has contributed to ESPN's Sports Center, Outside the Lines and First Take.

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  • Loosening the grip...

    Someone with infinite wisdom, must have said "The past will continue to be your future, if you drag it along with you!" what I failed to realize in the past few months is that I have been doing exactly that... dragging the past along with me and I don't want to ever look back. T …

  • The Surpreme Court and Health Care

    I often wonder if those involved in this debate know all the facts regarding the healthcare initiative.  It has been a benefit to millions of children who would otherwise be without healthcare, as well as seniors who are able to get reasonable medical services and medic …

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  • My Island

    Have you ever considered yourself to be an island? I know this is a foreign concept, but you are but one person in a sea of many.

  • Crossroads and fate...

    There are moments in all of our lives, where something happens that makes us wonder if it is meant to be there for a reason.

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