Morning Coffee with Larry Quicksall

Good morning and good coffee everyone!  Today I am focusing on two things.  The first is a prophetic meme from 12/2/2019 about letting go of 2019 and embracing the new beginnings of 2020 (Oh My!).  The second is about the difference between communication and comprehension, the challenges it gives us, and ways I have learned to increase comprehension.  Good stuff this morning pe...

Good morning and good coffee!  Today I am feeling distress which resulted in restless sleep and an inability to find a topic for today's podcast.  However, a biblical phrase popped into my head and it feels like the right topic for today.  Want to know what it is?  Well, grab a cup of coffee and take a listen.

Good morning and good coffee everybody! Almost daily I catch myself saying “I can’t wait for things to get back to normal”, but were all parts of normal really all that good? In today’s show, I want to examine the concept of a reset, in other words during this time of an extended disruption we have an opportunity to decide the things that we want to go back to, the things we don’t want to go back...

Good morning and good coffee!  Last night my wife was gathering chicken egg and showed me one that was laid without a shell.... yes, without a shell... just the membrane.  In today's podcast I share the possible reasons for this unusual situation and draw a parallel to what can happen when our protective shell is too thin or non-existent.  

Good morning and good coffee! On today’s episode I am joined by my son Aaron who is up here on a little vacation with his girlfriend and he shares about some other adventures in southern Illinois as well as life as a park ranger at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Good morning and good coffee!  This morning my mind went on an interesting journey regarding the concept of "BIG", and today I thought we could have a little fun with where my mind went asking the question "How Big is Big?"

Good morning and good coffee everybody! Have you ever tried to make a serious change only to have it fail because you kept holding on to the past? Today I want to talk about what the cost is for a new life if you want to have change for the better.

Good morning and good coffee everybody! I’m back! After a two week vacation of not recording a podcast I am fresh, excited, and ready to have a fresh cup of coffee with you this morning. Today I want to talk about attitude with the question “what did the fans say?”

Today's Best of Morning Coffee is from August 30, 2019, and addresses the struggles that happen when we try to understand why bad things are happening.  Sometimes the best answer is that storms can clear paths opening opportunities at just the right time.

Today's Best of Morning Coffee episode is from December 13, 2019, and takes a look at Morning Laughter.  I can't think of a better way to start my day!

Today's Best of Morning Coffee episode is from June 24, 2019, and answers an interesting question: "What spills from your cup?"

On today's Best of Morning Coffee episode from July 15, 2019, I feature an interview with Dale Horaz who is the head of Suicide Prevention with the Marion VA.  Dale is an expert in the field of suicide and is my go-to-guy with any questions that I have when helping a person or family with the issue of suicide.

Today's Best of Morning Coffee episode is from September 5, 2019, and features one of my favorite books on marriage by Neil Clark Warren titled The Triumphant Marriage.

Today's episode of Best of Morning Coffee is from December 23, 2019, and addresses the topic When Anger is in Control.  Again, another timely topic for the present time and any time for that matter.

Today's Best of Morning Coffee is from November 8, 2019, and is a very timely topic for today: Practicing Kindness!

Today's Best of Morning Coffee is from June 21, 2019, and features a discussion on the topic of Passion Projects.

This Best of Morning Coffee episode is from October 7, 2019, and has brought about a lot of lasting fun comparing chicken and ducks.  Ducks and definitely party animals, and my classmates Nancy, Lynette, and Carla are such "party ducks" that we names three of our ducks after them!

This Best of Morning Coffee is Episode 32 from March 8, 2019, and addresses the topic of Quantity Time vs Quality Time.  In short, you have to have a certain amount of quantity time to even have quality time.

Good morning and good coffee everybody! Many times we can get fatigued during the day and it would be great to be able to restart our brain or reboot our brain to help us get through the day with more mental clarity. Well guess what we can do that with a few simple easy to do tips. Are you interested? Listen to today’s podcast!

Good morning and good copy everybody! As I sit outside with my cup of coffee I am drawn to the distant past and sometimes the not so distant past to use my imagination to think about how things were long ago. It’s a need exercise to do whether you’re traveling to unique locations or literally sitting in your backyard. That’s the topic for today’s podcast: exercising your imagination.

Good morning a good coffee! Today’s topic is critical thinking as a tool that we can use to make our thoughts as accurate as possible. However if we try to do critical thinking with other people, for example on social media, we may be met with emotional resistance. Why is that? I talk about that on today’s episode.

Good morning and good coffee everybody! Today I wanna share with you a video of one of my favorite movies, and it may also be one of yours. It is an interview on Zoom with the cast of Ferris Bueller‘s Day off. Why do we like this movie so much? Well in today’s podcast I’ll explain to you why certain movies hit you in a certain way and last that way possibly for your entire life.

Good morning and good coffee everybody! Sometimes we work really hard only to fail. However that is not a good enough reason to give up and stop trying. What we often need to do is actually try harder and work to understand the situation better so that success will come eventually. How do you do that? Well listen to today’s podcast and expand your understanding.

Good morning and good coffee everybody! I hope you are planning a great Fourth of July weekend, but what actually happened on this date? Find out in today’s podcast.

Good morning and good coffee everybody! There are a lot of people who believe that good things should come easy or that they come easy to other people. In reality, good things take hard work and when we accomplish those things we do have a sense of satisfaction.