by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 25, 2014 | Serendipity
For 700 years, they’ve been holding hands. According to news reports last week, “Archaeologists in England digging at a 14th century burial site made an unexpected discovery: A couple buried together holding hands had remained that way all this time.” Further...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 19, 2014 | Resilience
Marcy Gardenhire passed away in 2010 after a long struggle with cancer. She lived and died better than most people I’ve ever known. A few years ago, she wrote these words of encouragement that kept her going: Faith. By far, this is the best place to start. Have...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 12, 2014 | Serendipity
Do you have any friends who are like free entertainment? Mike is one of those friends for me. Every time we get together for lunch or coffee, he seems to have a story that no one could possibly make up. Preparing for his sister’s wedding a few years ago, Mike was...
by Bruce McIntyre | Sep 3, 2014 | Caregiving
If you had to boil your story down to one sentence, what would it be? Essentially, this exercise demands that we know the point of our stories. Surviving adversity, finding true love, experiencing rare friendship, our stories will be most effective if they have a...
by Bruce McIntyre | Aug 29, 2014 | Caregiving
Challenge. Choice. Outcome. Perhaps these three words could form the template for your story. Often, we get stuck in challenge. But, we have choices about how we interpret and talk about those challenges! While we may tend towards either/or story telling,...