It was sometime in March of 1998 when I received a call from my friend and client, Don Bailey, at The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in Asheville North Carolina. “We’re having an event at the Diana Wortham Theater for Mrs. Graham’s birthday on April 5th. Everyone here is concerned that we fill the…
Every year we make our lists of resolutions. Every year we break them. This year will be different – I think.
When you are a kid there’s no place like Grandma’s house. Later in life, when you find out something terrible happen there – those memories are shaken to say the least.
There’s nothing particularly unique about it. It’s a fairly standard navy blue blazer. It hangs in my closet with a clear plastic protector over the shoulders and a disc of cedar around the neck of the hanger. I don’t wear it often – we are mostly business casual at the office these days – but,…
I’ll never forget that day I walked into the music store at Friendly Shopping Center, in Greensboro, NC to buy my first banjo. I had been playing guitar for several years and was writing songs and learning from anyone I could find, but I’m not quite sure what sparked my interest in the banjo. It…
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Every year we pull them out of the closet. The cardboard box is bent on the corners and a little faded now. It smells of the years of storage – a kind of rich aroma of cardboard decay. Inside the box there are a number of dividers…
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The “Kid’s Table” ? You may know the feeling. The adults are in the dining room with lots of great food, good stories and continuous and particularly loud laughter. My father has awakened from his mid-morning nap in front of the Macy’s Parade on our TV and…
Sometimes I’m surprised by the number of things I miss as life flies by. It’s time we learned to stop, look and listen.
The “Guard Donkey” is a good reminder of the kind of friend each of us needs in life.
Every year we set goals – often with the same result. Nothing changes. This year change your heart before you change your list.
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