Month: August 2026

My wife Sharon brought home a carton of eggs from the grocery store. When I took them out of the refrigerator a few days later, I discovered several of them were cracked. Sharon swore she had checked them in the store and they were fine. Clearly, she must have broken them in transit on the way home.

A week later, she brought another dozen home. Same story. They were fine on the shelf, but broken a few days after. Sharon was upset and baffled. She had been so careful bringing them home this time. How could she have damaged them? We were both frustrated.

We finally figured out we had the temperature in the fridge set too low. The eggs were freezing in there and eventually cracking from the pressure. It wasn’t Sharon’s fault at all.

Sometimes things are not what they seem. Don’t jump to conclusions until you’ve thought things through. Otherwise, you may end up with egg on your face.

I guess everyone who writes has a dream of writing a book. I’d like to write one. In fact, I’ve started writing several of them. But I get about twenty or thirty pages in, and I lose interest. So I figure if I can’t stay interested in the subject matter, surely readers won’t either.

Following a project through to the end has often been a problem for me. I get excited about ideas and concepts, and eagerly start them, but somewhere along the way, I have a bad tendency to drift off to something else that catches my attention. People who don’t follow through on their commitments have always annoyed me, but I am just as bad.

Don’t be like me. If you commit to something, follow it through to the end. There is a certain satisfaction to completing a mission successfully. Gives you a real sense of accomplishment.

Hey, maybe I could write a book about that!