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  • Smart and Stupid: The Perfect Blend 

    Smart and Stupid: The Perfect Blend 

    As he dropped me off for my first day in college, my father gave me one piece of advice: “Don’t do stupid things.”

  • The Dive

    The Dive

    How far would you go for the girl of your dreams?

  • Anti-Fragility

    Anti-Fragility

    When unexpected hardship strikes us like a hammer, do we gain strength? When we lose an eye, can our ear more than compensate? When we lose a family member far too young, can we gain fortitude, as if we were preparing for greater disasters yet to come?

  • Paradocs

    Paradocs

    There’s a new doc in the Thompson household, and history repeated itself. Finally, I understand what my father once meant to say.

  • Decoding Negative Thoughts

    Decoding Negative Thoughts

    Intrusive negative thoughts can be reinterpreted. Those voices are not our friends, and not necessarily our enemies, but rather harsh messengers, trying to deliver information. People respond to those messengers in one of three ways.

  • Is Sammie Real?

    Is Sammie Real?

    Mr. Solly! Welcome. May I take your coat? I spotted you from my open window the moment you emerged from the woods.

3 responses to “All Posts”

  1. Karen @ SHC Avatar
    Karen @ SHC

    A huge LIKE for the format for your blog posts. Thumbnails are helpful reminders for the ones I want to reread. And there are many! Your writing about pearls sends my mind in all sorts of directions. The connections for me are numerous. Stewardship of my resources needs to be reviewed more and more as I age.
    Mostly, I lean towards serious for your future writing about pearls, but am intrigued by the ridiculous and the preposterous. You can make salient points no matter what route you take. Keep it up, please. Karen/SHC

    1. Troy Avatar
      Troy

      Thanks, Karen!
      Troy

  2. mom Avatar
    mom

    I ache for you, my son.

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