Year: 2013

I was walking down a hallway outside the Pier 49 Seafood and Spirits toward the entrance to the Newport Harbor Hotel and Marina and as I approached a doorway into a room with a private […]

I woke up this morning feeling that in my sleep I had discovered a great truth. American’s no longer believe one another. Democrats do not believe anything that Republicans say and visa versa. The Tea […]

Oh ye 100 precious words that might go into the readers eyes and mind and heart and touch his soul. I have been working with words, written words and spoken words and once in a […]

I’ve got drawers and drawers full of old T-Shirts. Some are golf shirts, some real fancy and most of them have the names of the clients that gave them to me when I went in […]

My sweetheart Jean and I returned to Mt. Airy on Saturday of Labor Day weekend and I was one happy dude walkin down the main street in Mt. Airy. First we just barely made it […]

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.” Ralph Waldo Emerson How many things have you finished lately? How many half finished projects do you have in your life labeled “For when I have […]

It all began with a very strange phone call from a fellow from a small town just north of Grand Rapids. I can’t recall the fellow’s name or the little town involved but he invited […]

I was reading an old book I pulled off a dusty shelf and it was about the life of Johnny Cash and as I thought about life on a farm in a tiny swamp town […]

I have often heard instructors say that they learn a whole lot more by teaching a subject than the students learn. I gave a three hour presentation in Buffalo a decade ago and as I […]