I stopped at the local supermarket one morning to pick up some “essential” items. As I was going back to my car I heard an unbelievably loud racket coming from an old pick-up truck that had pulled in next to me. The fellow in the passenger’s seat obviously had his CD player, pulsing [...]
Margie and I live in Nashville, Tennessee. A very special place that we have come to like, maybe even love, a great deal. Home of country music. Home of one of the longest running live Saturday night radio shows of all time, the “Grand Ole Opry.” Home [...]
Perhaps you have seen the book Not Quite What I was Planning. Six Word Memoirs edited by Smith Magazine. In it, they propose that we see what would happen if we only used six words to describe different aspects of life. You can find examples at www.smithmag.net. Here are some:
About life: “Found great happiness in [...]
“Hey Dad, is it ok if I don’t play baseball next year?” my son Brad asked at the end of his freshman year in High School.
I was shocked. Not because he was indicating that he didn’t want to play baseball. I was very ok with that, but shocked because he felt like it [...]
As a young man, baseball was my passion. I managed to be able to make the team through a walk-on and play a little bit of college baseball. As a young teacher, I found myself coaching high school baseball. At a relatively young age I found myself being the head baseball coach. [...]
A number of years ago, I was sitting in the home of Jim, one of my friends, who was a much heralded award-winning photographer. He was a gruff, iconic character, with an Ernest Hemingway look; a cigar and shot of whiskey always within arm’s length.
He asked if I would be interested in taking a [...]
Fourteen-year-old Emily was thrilled. After six months of intense lobbying, she finally convinced her parents to buy her a cell phone. Emily’s parents gave her a cell phone with the stipulation that she could use only 500 minutes per month. They warned her not to go over her minutes and showed her how to check [...]
I received a phone message from a friend the other day. He was preparing a talk and he asked me how I would define the word “AGENT”? Agent? Define Agent? That seemed to be a strange request, but knowing my friend, Dave (always expect the unexpected) it didn’t seem too farfetched. [...]
It’s sort of cold and dark and rainy here today. I am reminded of what that means to me.
A long time ago, seems like a lifetime ago really, I spent part of a summer on the Navajo (that’s our name for them, they call themselves the “Dine’ ”) reservation in the middle of the [...]
The basics of personal finance are simple. Regardless of how troubled their financial lives, I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t already know what they should be doing. Everyone knows they should save for the future and not spend more than they make. Despite hundreds of books, thousands of newspaper articles, and prime time [...]
