Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Enjoy Life Because of What You Bring Into It

Enjoy life because of what you bring into it rather than expecting life to supply the enjoyment for you. Early morning on a trip through...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Dear Chuck Norris

A Letter to Chuck Norris Dear Chuck, It was so good to hear from you and even better to hear the good news about a beautiful...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Hurt’s My Thing

But hurt's my thing … it's my home, it's the only thing I know. I'm safe and sound and sure of myself when pain's...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Aged To Perfection

A Robert Browning verse has been in my head lately, "The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Get Up and Live

All I can remember wanting when I was a kid was to face the day ahead and see my way through it. Early one...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

The Image Was Me

When I stepped up to the bar it all came clear, I really forgot. In the mirror behind the pretty little bartender I saw...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

In God’s Corner

My name is Shelly Loven, I am Chuck Loven's daughter. He passed away on October 6th and his Memorial Service was on October 23rd....
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Turn Your Life Around

Don’t underestimate what it took to get you to where you are now so if you want to turn your life around you will...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Martial Arts Photography – The Early Days

It's hard to believe an article on martial arts photography would start out, "In the "old days" there was film... a piece of celluloid...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Discover What You Have to Contribute

I don’t want to spend the life I have left just squeaking by, I’m going to “go for it”. When I say “squeaking by”...

If Chuck Norris Could Answer the Call

If Chuck Norris could answer the call in his late 60's, could travel through Iraq under these circumstances, who was I to allow myself...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Put Off Thy Shoes…

In the world of Martial Arts I've heard a lot of reasons why we remove our shoes before we go "on the mat". Now,...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

I Know Who You Are Little Boy

C’mon Man … I know who you are I know who you are because I've been you. I see the veins popping from your neck. I...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

The Wade’s of Russell Springs

You never know who you're talking with when you're talking to a child. They may be a professional athlete some day, the one who...
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You Are You And You Always Were You!

He said, "Richard, you are you and you always were you. You're not what you do or what you call yourself...
Living Lessons with Duke Tirschel

Fear Scares Me

I don’t like bugs or cockroaches and I don’t know why. I don’t think they’re going to bite me or hurt me but I’m afraid...