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CHATTING WITH GOOD OL’ MOM

I’ve never posted a conversation with my mother on this blog. Good thing she doesn’t own a computer…
My mother and I were talking on the phone the other day and as usual she tried to run a guilt trip on me. She said “oh my boys don’t call me enough.” And “I guess one [...]

INSPIRING DAD – LESSONS FROM THE PAST

I was re-reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I had to pause to take a deep breath a time or two. Not because his letter was a tear jerker – it’s not. It’s truth spoken to power and is not at all sentimental. The ideas from his letter that [...]

REMEMBERING MY PERSONAL HERO

Dr. King,
Your spirit endures even in the face of our most recent tragedy as our brother and sisters in Haiti suffer at the hands of a natural disaster made worse by unnatural extreme poverty. But I think you’d be pleased by how the world has responded thus far. For better or for worse your [...]