Connection Posts

In my family of origin, there were six of us. Mom, dad, one sister, two brothers and me.  We lived in a house that was 700 square feet.  Two bedrooms, one bath.  Tight quarters to say the least.  Money was always short. Times always felt hard, at le…

In this most recent episode of Exploracast, Ray Daughtery talked about some of the signs one might look for when considering risk for developing alcohol/drug abuse and addiction. Among many other things, he talked about response to using the substan…

I’ve lived much of my life in fear.  Not so much of spiders or snakes, heights or the monster under the bed…..although I do remember a time when I started to realize that the monster wasn’t under the bed but was living in my head.   The fear tha…

I'm proud of my heritage and upbringing, just in case that has not been clear on our podcast but there were also things that I grew up with and believed as irrefutable truths that I had to make some decisions about later on in life. One of these was…

Exploracast has been in existence now for over a year with around 28 podcasts already recorded and available for listening! With topics ranging from civil conversation to thoughts on Mr. Rogers to the important values that seem to be in short supply…