Author: Rich

A friend sent a newsletter in which he talked about unfair circumstances. Got me thinking about the source of our notion of fairness. Where did we ever get the idea that circumstances ought to be fair? I don’t really have an answer, other than for me unfair usually means I didn’t get what I expected […]

“Life’s not a battle…unless you choose to fight.” I wrote that several years ago in a social media post. I was amazed by how many people disagreed. It’s almost as though they wanted to, uh, fight? Gotta fight, they said. Gotta fight evil. Gotta fight the enemy. Gotta fight sin. Gotta fight human trafficking. Gotta […]

To some extent, we all get caught in the trap of people-pleasing. It’s natural to want folks to like us, perhaps even admire us. Becomes a problem, though, when we start orienting our choices around what we think might impress others. I thought about how this might look as we seek to serve riders and […]