Author Archives: Randy Norton

A friend of mine posted a quote, “The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow”. This hit me pretty profoundly because it gave me another way to look at walking dead, i.e., flowing dead. I often talk about people just living through the motionsContinue reading “Dead Fish”

Some of you may know what that title is from. If you do, then great, your old like me. If you don’t, well it’s from an old television series where a German Sargent at a POW camp is asked if he knows any information or if he’s seen anything and his pat answer is, “IContinue reading “I Know Not-ting”

This simple statement can be used in such a plethora of ways. I believe it has also been misused. But for my purposes here I’m going to use it in a meaning of it’s so easy to just allow time to slip on by and old age to creep in. I know I’ve been talkingContinue reading “It’s So Easy”

When I was a younger lad, my dad would take me in for a haircut. This was in the later part of the 70’s and early 80’s. I hated getting my haircut. Dad was old school and liked the hair above the ears but if you know anything about the 70’s long hair was in.Continue reading “Just A Little Off The Top”

I’ve recently had an experience with traffic, specifically two traffic jams, and it got me to thinking. At first, I was completely and utterly frustrated and annoyed. I have been away from the area for some time and had not as of then been in the midst of literal stop and go traffic on anContinue reading “Cars And People”

No, I’m not talking about some slogan. I’m talking about things in your life that stand as obstacles, unreached goals, blockages, lost dreams, fears. The list can go on and on. But if you don’t just do it then more than likely you never will. So many things tell us we can’t do something, soContinue reading “Just Do It”

Easy to say, hard to do, but none the less it’s a must. There are so many scenarios that this simple but yet unfathomable statement can be made. Let’s take smoking for example. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health, that’s a given. But people don’t stop smoking. They say they want toContinue reading “Just Stop It”

If you were to put a message in a bottle, what would you say? Would you write some wisdom to yourself? Would you tell a love story for someone else to find? Would you tell a story and share it with a lucky traveler who stumbles across it? I implore you to think about whatContinue reading “Message In A Bottle”

I think we all have times that we feel lost, confused, non-motivated and just out of whack. There is so much in this thing called life that distract us, get us off task, take us down the wrong rabbit holes, it’s a wonder we find our way at all. I’ve been having one of thoseContinue reading “Discombobulated”

What does that mean? A tender hello, a sweet goodbye? Yes, but not what I mean. This KISS stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. I have used this phrase in my book “To See Or Not To See : Awareness Is The Question”. I devoted a whole chapter to keep it simple. So, lets diveContinue reading “KISS”