BRUCE KITTLE

 Dear friends:  Hope all of you are well and enjoying your best life ever.  I have been off line and off of this blog for some time. I started it about 5+ years ago as my son George was entering his senior year at Iowa (playing football). Partly as a way to think about...

It was in the morning hours. I usually get up fairly early and do my little routine. One thing I love about that time of day is the quiet and solitude. A chance to read, reflect, pray, whatever. I love the cloak of darkness, maybe pushed back slightly with a candle or...

01/28/19 - A couple of days past my 60th birthday I sit on a plane heading to Orlando Florida. I am with my wife Jan, our son George, and his fiancé Claire Till. We are on our way to Orlando for the 2019 Pro Bowl. For the few of you who read this you likely know that G...

We have now entered year two of our tag along to our son George and his career in the NFL. Last year we went through the draft, his preparations for his first NFL camp, surviving the cut to 53, and then all of the ups and downs of his first season along with the strugg...

The world is a big place and at times can make us feel very small. The enormity of it all with all the people, places, and things going on, and here we are, just tiny specks in the grand scheme of things. But yet we are given the opportunity for this life, with this li...

I have the great benefit of having the opportunity to cross paths with many unique individuals from a wide variety of diverse occupations and backgrounds. These encounters come about for many reasons, from clients, to friends, to colleagues, to strangers.

Recently I wa...

Well this is an exciting time of the year for so many people with NCAA basketball tournaments going on in men's and women's, plus NIT, plus I just watched NCAA College Wrestling Championships. Now my friends and family know that I am not really much of a basketball fan...

I sit today in one of my favorite bars in Iowa City.  Back in a corner table of an older establishment (very old!), one of the “graduate student” type of bars I have frequented around here ever since I hit my 30’s.  It has been steadfast and true over all these years....

Made it through the holidays and all was good. Hope the same is true for you.  Seems that from Halloween to the New Year's Eve celebration life is such a rush.  You look forward to the fall/winter holidays with such anticipation for all kinds of reasons; vacation from...

I have a client I represent on a probation revocation.  From early on in his life he has struggled with mental health issues including schizophrenia and bi-polar. He never really got treatment for it due to cost and trying to work, etc. He typically self-medicated with...