WHAT IS YOUR PEDIGREE?

“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree, or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.” ― Millard Fuller What’s Your Pedigree? Every first Saturday in May, more than a dozen thoroughbred horses “go to the post” in the Kentucky...

MODELS OF HONOR

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates Today’s message will flow from three seemingly unrelated incidents in your author’s recent (and distant) past. Event #1 Nine years after building our current home, we began...

THE RUBBERBAND

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.” —Jim Rohn My son wears a rubberband on his wrist. Daily. Why? Because his grandfather wore one. Years ago, my father-in-law, Fred...

The Times of my Life

Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks. The Times of My Life Who is Paul Anka? My guess is that I’ve stumped my “under age 40 or 50” readers while my generational peer group may be wondering why I evoked a name from their musical past.  For...

THE MISSING PIECE

The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand. Radoi In the course of training future counselors, I would often caution those grad students about the importance of information gathering. All...