Accepting the risk of joining the ranks of stereotypical males sharing sports analogies, I find this an appropriate venue. Imagine, if you will, that your favorite NFL team has reached…
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As a professional speaker I have been doing student assemblies for a long, long time. I prefer to speak to teenagers but I have done my fair share of…
The Super Bowl this year was a fantastic spectacle of fireworks, entertainment, interviews, fanfare and football. The game was a display of excellence led by two fantastic young quarterbacks representing…
As a teenager I listened to a classmate play the piano and I was absolutely amazed at his ability to dance his fingers across the keys like a concert virtuoso….
In the world of parties, dances, balls and soirées, there is an old phrase quoted in our title. It is important for those attending events to not forget the one…
It was the morning of July 24th, four days before my fifty-fifth birthday. I had meticulously planned out a bicycle trip from Midlothian to Kansas that would cover five days…
TRANSITION: The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. Something about being human allows us to innately know that circumstances are changing. Our…
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore Countless times adults have come to me for counsel feeling stagnated in their…
School days, school days Dear old Golden Rule days ‘Reading and ‘riting and ‘rithmetic Taught to the tune of a hick’ry stick! Very few of us remember the words to…
DON’T MAKE IT SO HARD Some religious leaders thought they were laying a sly trap in order to snare Jesus into an unsolvable debate therefore making him look uninformed. After…