Lou's Views
Winter the Dolphin Passes Away at 16
Winter is a dolphin who was stranded on a beach with wire around her tail in Florida. She was rescued by the team at Clearwater Marine Aquarium in 2005. When Winter got to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA), the medical team observed she was swimming in such a way...
My Journey with Genealogy: My Passion Ignited
I have had an interest in genealogy since I was young. I joined Ancestry in 2009, adding the relatives that I knew: my parents, my grandparents on both sides, and my great grandparents on both sides. When I got stumped, I started reaching out to my family. I was given...
Only Time Will Tell
What’s your one word? I’ve been watching the National Memorial Day Concert for as long as I can remember. I was introduced to it as a child when my paternal grandma was over for dinner one night and said she had to go home. Being the young, inquisitive boy I was, I...
You don’t have to wait until you have all of your ducks in a row
Scrolling through Facebook after a long day of work one day, I came across this quote: “If you wait until you have all of your ducks in a row, you'd never get across the street. Sometimes you just have to gather up what you’ve got and make a run for it.” It resonated...
Success and Happiness: Do They Go Hand-in-Hand?
Some may think that you must be successful to be happy. Others may think the opposite: You must be happy to be successful. Both of those thought patterns correlate with thinking that one has everything to do with the other. In The Success Code, I talk about three...
The House That Built Me
As I sit here in the house that I moved into with Cassie back in December of 2020, I am full of memories from years past. The song "The House That Built Me" pops into my head on a daily basis. "The House That Built Me" (written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin, and...