Nuggets

Did you ever try to locate something and you just couldn’t find it, but you found something much better? Well that happened and I found a little book my daughter Nancy presented to me on […]

Did you ever go to describe something to somebody and as you did so you got a whole new look at what you were describing?  That happened to me the other day when I had […]

James Brown, the old Blues singer, wrote and sang a song titled “Papa’s got a brand new bag”. I sort of associated that song with the different brands I have had in my career. For […]

Over the fifty years I’ve worked as a Professional Speaker I have made speeches in so many different fields and topics and some of my clients have made recordings of my work. I had a […]

DOWNLOAD Lyrics (Word DOC) In this time of turmoil let us pray.. I believe that right now this might be the greatest crisis that we have faced as a nation.  Fear appears to have overcome […]

​On February 17, 1998 I was a guest speaker at the Florence Crane Women’s Facility, A Maximum Security Prison. This story that follows is about that day. Sally Brayton was the fantastic wife of Greg […]

I had an unusual experience while visiting Ayr Mount.  I met a fine artist from England. I’m not sure if he now lives here or was visiting. He just turned 80 and when I told […]

A dynamic speaker named Bill Sanders invited me to join him one day when he was visiting Jackson prison. That would be around 1980. We went into the maximum security section and visited with prisoners […]

It was mid October 1952 and I was an officer’s records clerk in the 99th Field Artillery, a private first class on a Landing Ship Troops (LST)  headed towards North Korea. I didn’t even suspect […]

I must admit that I have been staring at this blank spot in this memo trying to fill it with something that might be appropriate for these challenging times. Another fact that I don’t like […]