: About Me

Ron Kruger has been an outdoor writer/editor for over 30 years, with credits in most every outdoor magazine. Today, he writes a weekly syndicated column for Western Kentucky newspapers, free-lances to various magazines and last year had a mainstream book, A Higher Good, published. It is available through Amazon and other online book stores.
Ron can be reached at flyback@mchsi.com.

My passion is ...

Outdoors

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

If you can't say anything good about someone, don't say anything

My childhood ambition ...

Major Legue Baseball Player

My favorite memory ...

An NDE

Why I write ...

Because I can't sing.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Everything

My first job ...

Chicken Debeaker

My best moment ...

An NDE

My inspiration ...

An NDE

Health & Fitness > Depression How to keep away the everyday blues

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One of the keys to happiness on Earth is not in having everything we want, but in wanting everything we have. This, simply put, is an attitude of gratitude. It is the opposite of "the blues." So much of the time our attention focuses on the things beyond our reach at the expense of the many blessings at our feet. I'm not talking about losing a loved one or some traumatic occurrence for which grieving is a natural process, just the way you look at everyday existence. That's what determines our general outlook on life and the general quality of our mental health. It's all in the way we think...

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