For some strange reason, I think about it every fall. Should I, would I, ever consider trying to run one more marathon? I know. It sounds pretty stupid when you consider I am now 71 years old and while considered “active” for my age group, I have not run consistently for at least 10 years. […]
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Finding Happiness-The Journey Continues
Four years ago I wrote a blog entitled “Finding Happiness – What’s so hard about it?” In that blog I highlighted the fact that Yale University had offered a course on “Finding Happiness” and over 1,200 students had registered for the course making it THE most popular course ever offered at the prestigious university. Now, […]
Click here to read the entire articleA Back to School Message For Mom and Dad
It’s that time of year – “Back to School!” Woohoo! And yes, thankfully, this year (2022) most of the kids are actually going back to school. Not online school, not virtual classes, but ‘physically’ going back to school. Once again our children (or grandchildren for many of us) will finally be ‘physically’ back in their […]
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I didn’t get to know them until the Fall of 2007. It was my first season helping coach the Franklin College Football Team and Anna and George Leonard were faithful fans pretty much attending every Franklin College football game. Of course, that was to be expected as their youngest son, Mike, was the Head Football […]
Click here to read the entire articleMy Open Letter on Gun Control to ALL Members of Congress
Let me begin by explaining who I am and why I am taking the time to write this letter to every member of Congress. I am an American citizen just days from my 71st birthday. I am a devout Christian (a white male if you care to know) who was raised by wonderful parents (my […]
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“Pray Constantly” – 1st Thessalonians 5:17 It’s happened again. Oh yeah, and it happened just 10 days before in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York and 5 days later in a California church. But this one, if possible, was even more horrific because it killed 19 innocent, beautiful children in an elementary school. How, why […]
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Three years ago, I wrote about this very topic and yet now, I feel more compelled than ever before to write on this subject. Back in 2019 I quoted Nicholas Carr from his controversial article some ten years earlier in The Atlantic Monthly, entitled, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the article he suggested that […]
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Youth sports in America are ‘Big Business.” How big is “big?” Well, consider the following: An estimated 36 million youths age 6-17 participate in youth sports in the U.S Families alone spend at least $30 billion a year on youth sports The average family spends roughly $1,400 on sports activities every year per child with […]
Click here to read the entire articlePaying it forward always beats getting paid
We’ve all heard the expression “Pay it Forward.” Essentially, to ‘pay it forward’ simply means that when someone performs an act of kindness for you, instead of paying that person back directly with a similar act of kindness, you instead perform an act of kindness for someone else. For anyone who has ever engaged in […]
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Upon special request, this blog originally published in 2020 is being re-released with slight revisions in March, 2022. Back in 2009, over a decade ago, Simon Sinek brought new awareness to TED Talks with his famous How Great Leaders Inspire Action presentation. In Sinek’s talk he explained that as corporate entities, we communicate well what […]
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