The past 24 hours have left me stunned. I have marveled at how life comes back. There was a time a decade ago that I did not have any wealth, no company, not many friends, family was distant, church relationship broken, health was at a low, and my family was without even a home. Today, […]
My back has finally healed enough I can play some golf and I have been regularly getting onto the links with my brother Matthew. Matthew just turned 40 this week so we got out and played a round. It did not click with me where we were headed when he booked a tee time at […]
As a society we have been well educated about the evil of stereotypes related to race. Even with all the reminders, we still have issues in this area. Much less obvious are the broad generalizations we make about anyone who is opposed to our point of view. Here are a couple that I have seen […]
I was recently reading a report on Child Welfare and Adoption put together by the US Department of Health and Human Services and presented to Congress¹. The most recent report covered data up through 2011. I was researching this topic because of comments I have heard others make related to such statistics and I wanted […]
Last week I lost someone very dear to me. He is virtually unknown, with almost no social footprint, yet he has had a profound influence on me. I know he also quietly affected many lives. Joe is my mother’s older brother. He was married to my Aunt Martha and they did not have any children. […]
Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth, and now I have no time! JRR Tolkien Over the last six months this quote has kept me laughing at my own plight. Last year we decided to expand the training business within our company. We had been very successful using our expertise to […]