| How willing are you to face the facts? | Just how brave are you? Well, here is a test for the bravest! I have had the privilege to be involved for the fourth time with individuals and/or families who are willing to carefully examine the details of their plans. This grand idea started with a lone, brave warrior of the business world who called out of the blue and said, “Let’s pretend I am dead”. Read More >> |
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| Famous Sayings from People Youve Never Heard Of | “Never focus on your age. Focus on living. It is better to be seen than to be viewed!” -Russell Hiatt, Mt. Airy, NC “I started with nothing and have half of it left.” -Howard Bickel, New Vienna, OH Read More >> |
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Issue 59
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| Nightmares |
Dear Dream Weaver, I know you keep harping “get it in writing”, and “if it isn’t in writing, don’t count on it!” Well, we got it in writing – we thought. We paid one of the most prominent attorneys in the country a gigantic fee for doing so. For five years, we kept going along our “merry” way. Oh we partners had some minor disagreements but nothing severe—until last year. When my wife and I reviewed our documents, we discovered all we had was an unsigned co... Read More >> |
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| Rons Perceptions |
There are three kinds of people: 1. Those who can handle success. 2. Those who can handle failure 3. And those who can’t handle either! ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A follow-up to Hurricane Katrina: Some members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers remain unconvinced that design flaws existed in the levies that protected New Orleans. Credibility remains in short supply… Members of the Corps at a 1993 Mississippi River flood site explained to this writer that ... Read More >> |
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| Legal Lingo |
Clip Show A common practice for successful long-running TV shows is to run a “clip show” when the writers have exhausted new material. A clip show is one where material from previous episodes is utilized and packaged in a way to make it appear new. While my articles may not be as successful as The Simpsons, it has been over eleven years since my initial article appeared in Dream Weaving. Therefore, I thought it may be appropriate to review past articles and provide some updates. ... Read More >> |
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| Update from Field of Dreams |
(This is a follow-up to stories printed in Dream Weaving issues 21 and 36, which remain available on our web-site www.dreamweaving.net.) “If you build it, he will come…” was the message the mysterious voice whispered to the Iowa corn farmer in the movie “Field of Dreams”, filmed in 1988. The movie site was built near Dyersville, a town of about 4,000 people, located thirty miles west of Dubuque, IA. And oh my have the people come, as over a million have now walked on this ... Read More >> |
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| Heres Zoey! |
Granddaughter Zoey Nicole Eberhard, now 10 ½, continues to amaze us. We are very happy that she is “lending” Daddy Bruce to us during the day. Zoey and her classmates are in the third grade and she continues to love going to school. Despite the autism, the words are coming back slowly, but surely, thanks to the dedicated efforts of “Team Zoey”. One day she surprised Mrs. Julie Seel, one of her paraprofessional aids, by doing an “arr, arr, arr” sound and clapping her hands squar ... Read More >> |
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