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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 [...]

MEAN PEOPLE

I think I’m tired of mean people. (I say “I think” because I’m not sure if I’m mean people myself or not.) I don’t mind people who say or do mean things for the sake of comedy and to make others laugh. Heck, I’m one of those people. But what I’ve had enough of are [...]